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[News] Clerkenwell Explosion 1867





Stat Brother

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Jul 11, 2003
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West west west Sussex
Wasn't there a thread at the time?
 




portlock seagull

Why? Why us?
Jul 28, 2003
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Whilst looking through a list of terror attacks (see German attack thread) I came across this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerkenwell_explosion

Never heard of it. Remarkable to think this happened in the 19th Century, 104 years before the next Irish related attack.

Blimey, anyone with a passing interest in British history should heard of that.

Another terrotist plot happened even earlier, in the early 17th century. Bloke called Guy Fawkes. And if you really want to go back, there was this bloke called Jesus who the Romans believed was a terrorist. All came to a most awful end!
 






McTavish

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Nov 5, 2014
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Nothing new under the sun.

You should read Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Agent". Set in 1886 but based on the French anarchist Martial Bourdin who blew himself up in Greenwich by mistake. No-one knows what his bomb was supposed to destroy.
 


1066familyman

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Jan 15, 2008
15,185
Any excuse to post this again :)

 



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