Rioters attempted to storm the Bank of England at the height of the Gordon Riots. The Bank was defended by soldiers and the novelist John Wilkes as a City magistrate. This was the turning point when the government authorised lethal force without requiring magistrate presence.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
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