Regency Spies

An Age of Revolutions: Sue Wilkes uncovers the hidden histories of Regency spies and the men they hunted. Eavesdrop on the secret meetings of Britain’s underground political societies of the 1790s and early 1800s. Discover the true stories behind the riots, rebellions, and treason trials in late Georgian Britain. Regency Spies explores the plots, intrigues and perils of those thrilling times: • Wolfe Tone’s ambitious plan to free Ireland from British rule • Luddites incite arson and machine-breaking in Britain’s industrial heartlands • The doomed Pentrich uprising of 1817 • The race to stop the 1820 plot to murder cabinet ministers and seize control of the capital