Almost as soon as it was built, London suffered the first of many acts of violent protest, when Boudica and her followers set fire to the city in AD 60. Ever since, the capital’s streets have been a forum for popular insurrection. Violent London is the only book to fully explore London’s ‘secret’ history and the underground world of radicals and subversives from past and present. This second edition of Violent London has been completely revised and updated to cover the most recent developments in political protest including the Greenpeace protests, the death of Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protest, controversy over police tactics, the anti-fascist rally at the BBC, changes to law and policing and new surveillance methods being used.