Violent London

"Almost as soon as it was built, London suffered the first of many acts of violent protest, when Boudicca and her followers set fire to the city in A.D. 60. Ever since, the capital's streets have been a forum for popular insurrection. Yet this is the first time that London's 'secret' history has been fully explored - the underground world of radicals and subversives from Wat Tyler to the Anti-Globalization Movement via the Gordon Riots, the Cato Street Conspirators, the Suffragettes, Mosleyites and the IRA." "This is the story of an alternative London, as well as an alternative political…