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Author Wilkes, Sue, author.

Title Regency spies : secret histories of Britain's rebels and revolutionaries / Sue Wilkes.

Publication Info. Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword History, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource
Note Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 25, 2016).
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Enemies of the State. The machinery of government -- The King's peace -- Gathering intelligence -- Recruitment -- New ideas -- Treason and sedition -- Spies, ships and secrets. Growing tensions -- A spy is caught -- The Bantry Bay Disaster -- The Black Legion arrives -- Mutiny! -- The S̀py Nozy' Affair -- Ireland Ablaze! A rebel priest -- Insurrection! -- Invasion! -- Robert Emmet's rebellion -- Inside the Secret Societies -- The origins of a conspiracy -- The Manchester Connection -- Treasonable practices -- Daring Despard -- The Sons of Liberty -- Outlawed! -- A mysterious Yorkshire plot -- Despard's downfall -- S is for Spy. An assassin strikes -- The Nottinghamshire Luddites -- Ènoch Shall Smash Them' -- Trouble looms in the North-West -- A rebel underground? -- Strange lights on the moors -- The people's champions. A desperate character -- The Spa Fields Riot -- The North-West connection -- A nst of spies -- The Blanketeers -- The Ardwick conspiracy -- Oliver's Army. Oliver's tour -- The Nottingham agent -- A trap is sprung -- A wild goose chase -- Recruits for a rebellion -- A spy unmasked. The Yorkshire rising -- The Pentrich Rebels -- Exposed! -- The traitors' trial -- ̀The Last Grand Secret' -- Shegoe the spy -- The Peterloo Massacre -- The Benevolent patriots -- The Northern connection -- The Cato Street conspiracy -- S̀cotland free, or Scotland a desart' -- The Grange Moor Rising -- A sincere revolutionary.
Subject Espionage -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
Espionage. (OCoLC)fst00915379
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Chronological Term 1700-1799
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Electronic book.
Other Form: Print version: Wilkes, Sue. Regency spies. Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword History, 2015 9781783400614 1783400617 (OCoLC)920853271
ISBN 9781473878389 (electronic bk.)
1473878381 (electronic bk.)
9781473878396 (electronic bk.)
147387839X (electronic bk.)
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