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On 3 January 1911, in the heart of London's mainly Jewish East End, police discovered Latvian revolutionaries wanted for the murder of three officers. A six-hour gunfight ensued, with a fire consuming the besieged building. Winston Churchill, then Home Secretary, arrived at the scene and ordered the blaze not to be extinguished. Afterwards two charred bodies were found; the elusive Peter the Painter, believed to have been the ringleader, remained at large. This gripping episode, known as the 'Siege of Sidney Street', was a nationwide sensation and ignited fierce debates on immigration to Britain, political extremism and law enforcement. This book unravels the full story of the siege, the Latvian émigrés and their ties to the vibrant anarchist movement in London's East End.
Contents
Introduction
1 The Tottenham Outrage
2 The 'Alien Invasion'
3 The Worker's Friend
4 Comrades and Lovers
5 Houndsditch
6 100 Sidney Street
7 'A Devilish Kind of Courage'
8 'The Cossacks of Bourgeois Journalism'
9 Acquitted
10 Nina, Luba, Rosa
11 Who Was Peter the Painter?
12 The Anarchist Aftermath
13 Legacy
Timeline
Walk: From Tottenham Police Station to the Marshes
Walk: From Houndsditch to Sidney Street
References
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
Index
