Turtle Soup for The King, The Cato Street Chronicles by Judy Meewezen
History has often dismissed the men as ignorant, deluded fools. As the grandchild of railway workers, domestic servants and miners, this enraged me. Working at the BL on another project, I came across the letters, written by the principal conspirators to their families on the night before they were hanged. That was some time in 2007. From that moment, I was compelled to tell the story from the point of view of the participants, including the spy who betrayed them and their families. As well as extensive study of archive I drew from past interviews with activists in Ireland and South Africa as well as family members in a desolate English mining town.