Tag Archives: The Gordon Riots 1780

democracy is messy: get used to it

Perhaps we are going back to the roaring eighteenth-century where people learned to live with riots as they did with disease and death. It becomes part of the nature in society. Background noise. The French Revolution changed the nature of … Continue reading

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London calling : just leave a message

To the overwhelming majority of Brits, of all races, creeds and colors, well off or in poverty, a fundamental change in social structure, is probably just as unthinkable as it was to those English citizens in the eighteenth-century. But, as … Continue reading

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london : read them the riot act?

Mobs and riots are not exactly new phenomenon. It’s had some water under the bridge, most of it undrinkable, to draw on. When the capital of the Roman empire moved to the East, the mob, at Byzantium rioted with unparalleled … Continue reading

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