Swing Riots
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The Swing Riots were a widespread set of uprisings in 1830 by agricultural workers across Southern England and Eastern England in protest of agricultural mechanisation and harsh working conditions. Th
Horse-powered threshing machine
A letter threatening to burn Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, sent in 1830 and signed "Swing".
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister 1830–1834
Portrait of Lord Melbourne by John Partridge. Lord Melbourne - Home Secretary of Earl Grey's Whig government
Luddites
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The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers who protested the usage of certain types of automated machinery owing to their concerns over worker pay, labour savings,
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The Leader of the Luddites, 1812. Hand-coloured etching