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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Sidney Street siege
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(1911)
Incident in a street in London's East End, when two armed anarchists died in a house where they had been trapped by police and a detachment of Scots Guards. The memory of it survives largely because the home secretary, Winston *Churchill, appeared in the street to direct operations himself – an involvement for which he was much criticized.
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