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THE Cato Street Conspiracy — named after the meeting place where the conspirators  met near Edgware Road in the West End of London — was an attempt to murder all the British Cabinet ministers and the prime minister Lord Liverpool in 1820. Most of its  members were angered by the economic depression and political repression of the time and planned to assassinate the Cabinet, which on the night of February 23 was supposed to dine  together in Lord Liverpool’s Grosvenor Square house. They would then seize key buildings, overthrow the government and establish a committee of public safet...

Country Life Trending: The Dunmore Pineapple. Photo: Angus Bremner/Landmark Trust Credit: Angus Bremner/Landmark Trust From the Americas to the roof of country-house follies, Matthew Dennison traces the journey of the pineapple, one of Georgian Britain’s most coveted fruits. In the summer of 1767, it was a source of some surprise to the writer of the Manchester Mercury that Edward Higgins, committed to Carmarthen Castle for burglary, hadn’t included among booty stolen from the home of Mrs Biven of Laugherne any pineapples. Having made himself comfortable in Mrs Biven’s kitc...

Updated: February 11, 2021, 12:35 pm Charles Dickens has Scottish links including Aberdeen and the Highlands. Sign up for our newsletter and let our nostalgia team take you on a trip back in time Thank you for signing up to our Nostalgia newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Charles Dickens is the author whose works and characters still resonate with audiences across the world more than 150 years after his death. And his surname has even entered our dictionaries and phrasebooks, while a variety of his more renowned creations – such as Mr Micawber, Ebeneze...

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How could a patient die from anesthesia for a colonoscopy? Every death related to anesthesia is a tragedy; even more so when a minor procedure such as a colonoscopy leads to a completely unexpected death. Everyone knows that open heart surgery carries a mortality risk, but few of us walk into the hospital for a colonoscopy thinking that death is a plausible outcome. We know so few facts at this point about what happened on January 21 at Beaumont Royal Oak Hospital in Michigan. The patient who died, sources say, was a 51-year-old man who walked into the hospital for a routine colonoscopy. He ...