​Talk by top conspiracy author

​Horncastle History & Heritage Society (HHHS) will be hosting a talk by author and journalist Judy Meewezen about her book on the Cato Street Conspiracy.

The Conspiracy was an attempt to overthrow the Government in 1820 and create a British republic, which was led by local radical Arthur Thistlewood.

Arthur was born at Tupholme, near Bardney, and educated at Horncastle’s Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School.

Thistlewood and his conspirators planned to assassinate the Cabinet and Prime Minister as they ate dinner one evening, but unknown to them they had been infiltrated by a Government spy.

The plot was foiled and he and the four other conspirators were executed for treason.

Mewzeen’s book, ‘Turtle Soup For The King: The Cato Street Chronicles’ is a historical novel retelling this fascinating but overlooked moment in our history and her extensive research and experiences to imagine the story from the participants’ point of view, of their own and their families’ efforts to create a better world.

They sought a new fairer society, with universal suffrage (200 years before women got the vote),

common ownership of land, and the end of the the tyranny of landlords, a welfare state, and the

end to child poverty.

The talk takes place tomorrow (Wednesday June 21) at 7.30pm at Horncastle Community Centre. Entry is £2 for HHHS members or £4 for non-members.