The Accidental Death of an Anarchist - by Mike Frost
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The Accidental Death of an Anarchist - a talk by Mike Frost
No, not the political farce by Dario Fo...
On February 15th 1894, a young Frenchman called Martial Bourdin made his way to the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and detonated a home-made bomb. His story was headline news at the time, and subsequently inspired Joseph Conrad's novel, "The Secret Agent", which has been filmed twice, and has itself been cited as a source for modern day terrorists.
This talk weaves Bourdin's story into the history of the RGO. In its heyday, the Greenwich Observatory was a world class research observatory, and the location of the world's prime meridian. Why did it become the site of England's first ever international terrorist attack?
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