The Fateful Year by Mark Bostridge

Author:Mark Bostridge
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141962238
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2013-10-27T16:00:00+00:00

Gosse’s account of the Trafalgar Square rally is slightly at odds with other reports of the demonstration. These described heckling from middle-class youths who ‘shouted patriotic songs until a heavy shower of rain dampened their enthusiasm and the mounted and foot police who had arrived to avert trouble found themselves with nothing to do’. Perhaps Gosse had arrived too early or too late to observe them. Some of these ‘rowdy clerks’ may have been the same youths in straw-boaters who had participated in the attacks on suffragettes at Buckingham Palace two months earlier. That evening these youths joined the crowds moving down the Mall and gathering outside the Palace, the beginning of a nightly vigil that would continue every evening for the next week.

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