If you’ve ever turned to walk down Amhurst Road from Stoke Newington Road, you’ll have unwittingly passed the HQ of one of Britain’s most infamous cases of political violence. Between 1970 and 1972, Britain's first urban guerrilla group the Angry Brigade – based in a flat at 359 Amhurst Road – carried out a campaign of bombing and attempted assassination which targeted government buildings, banks, and other symbols of capitalism.