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Terrorist attacks and their consequences Terrorist attacks and their consequences
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The anarchists and terrorism The anarchists and terrorism
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Rumours Rumours
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Anarchism in public opinion Anarchism in public opinion
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Surveillance Surveillance
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An original British model? official discourses and surveillance practices An original British model? official discourses and surveillance practices
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Attempts at police coordination Attempts at police coordination
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4 Bombs in Britain? Realities and Rumours
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Published:April 2013
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Abstract
This chapter explores the question of terrorism, and in particular the very fine line between the many myths surrounding the London groups and the actual extent of propaganda by the deed among them. Throughout the 1890s, spies’ reports and newspapers abounded with rumoured conspiracies of terrorist attacks in Britain or on the Continent. This obsession with terrorism derived from a misunderstanding of the political views of most anarchists and the functioning of the movement, whose prevalent individualism precluded the imagined conspiracies. Nonetheless, the exile years were marked by a number of actual terrorist scandals. The 1892-93 ‘Walsall plot’ originated in a Birmingham anarchist club and involved three Frenchmen, an Italian and an Englishman. It resulted in arrests and long prison sentences for the comrades involved, but the bomb plot was quickly exposed as having been instigated by British secret services through the French agent provocateur Auguste Coulon. The explosion of a bomb in the Greenwich Observatory Park (1894) was probably the most memorable anarchist-related terrorist scare of the period.
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