Violent London: 2000 Years of Riots, Rebels and Revolts [Paperback]
Clive Bloom
ISBN: 978-0230275591
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Price: £16.99
Clive Bloom has just updated his magnus opus on the history of revolt and rebellion in the capital. You can buy this 550 page tome at Freedom Bookshop or directly online from us.
Almost as soon as it was built, London suffered the first of many acts of violent protest, when Boudica and her followers set fire to the city in AD 60. Ever since, the capital’s streets have been a forum for popular insurrection. Covering nearly 2,000 years of political protest, this is a riveting alternative history of past and present conflict.
A riveting story of an alternative London, and an alternative political history of the British Isles, exploring the capital’s streets over centuries as a forum for popular insurrection
Find out more about the book and the author: http://www.clivebloom.com/
‘An exhilarating rush through countless riots, insurrections and full-blown street wars…written in a racy and accessible style…As I read this superb history, I looked out at my quiet suburban garden, disappointed not to hear the sound of trumpets.’ - J. G Ballard, Daily Telegraph
‘A breathless but exhilarating journey from Boudica to such recent events as the aftermath of September 11th and the march of the Countryside Alliance, Bloom’s viewpoint is nicley balanced, critical of government and especially of the police, but not unreasonably so, and not too passionately keen that the rebels should win every time.’ - Times Literary Supplement
