Three talks from BRHG; The history of corporations, Social Crime, Hidden struggles in the 19th Century
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Bristol Anarchist Bookfair
Tag Index: Captain Swing
The Last Rising of the Agricultural Labourers: Rural Life and Protest in Nineteenth-Century England
The Hernhill Rising of 1838 was the last battle fought on English soil, the last revolt against the New Poor Law, and England’s last millenarian rising. The bloody ‘Battle of Bosenden Wood’, fought in a corner of rural Kent, was the culmination of a revolt led by the self-styled ‘Sir William Courtenay’. It was also, despite the greater...
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Tolpuddle And Swing - The Flea And The Elephant
In 1834, six Dorset farm labourers were tried and condemned to transportation to Australia for joining an early Trade Union. Since then the 'Tolpuddle Martyrs' have become an iconic part of modern British History. Three years before the events in Tolpuddle, much of rural England was rocked with a massive uprising of farm labourers known as the...
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Swing Walk By John Owen Smith
The Anniversary Rioters' Walk Exactly 180 years after the rioters did it a guided walk from Selborne to Headley and back again distance approximately 7 miles out and 7 miles back.
Tuesday 23rd November 2010 starting at 10am
We plan to walk from Selborne to Headley, from the car park behind the Selborne Arms and finishing at the Holly Bush...
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Wiltshire History Day
Organised by White Horse Trades Union Council on 6th November 2010 at St. Margaret's Hall Bradford-on-Avon from 10am.
Talk subjects include Chartists and Swing rebellions in Wiltshire as well as strikes in Swindon.
You can find more details about this event on ...
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Gloucester Local History Day
Saturday 2nd October 2pm-5pm
Sir Thomas Richs School Longlevens
A fair days wage for a fair days work- workers movements in Gloucestershire
Talks include:
Work wages and protest in Gloucestershire 1738-1830 by Prof Adrian Randall
Swing riots in Gloucestershire
Chartists and the Chartist Land Company in Glocestershire by Rev John...
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From Peterloo to Captain Swing
The slides from a talk on the hidden history of struggle in the 19th century which was presented at the Bristol Anarchist Bookfair.
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Tolpuddle and Swing: The Flea and the Elephant
Comparing how we view the history of the Captain Swing Riots and the Tolpuddle Martyrs.
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Tolpuddle and Swing: The Flea and the Elephant
A new article has been added to the BRHG archive.
Tolpuddle and Swing: The Flea and the Elephant
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Captain Swing Reconsidered: forty years of rural history from below
Our friend Steve Poole from UWE is involved in organising the following event:
A Southern History Society Conference University of Reading, UK
March 21st 2009
The anniversary this year of E. J. Hobsbawm and George Rudé's Captain Swing offers a timely opportunity to reflect upon the development of rural histories from below over the last four...
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