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 fame of the 1830 Swing Riots, the last rising of the agricultural labourers. Barry Reay provides us with the first comprehensive and scholarly analysis of the abortive rising, its background, and its social context, based on intensive research, particularly in local archives. He presents…
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- ISBN: 978-0-9564827-2-3
- EAN: 9780956482723
- Produktnummer: 8270721
- Verlag: Breviary Stuff Publications
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B19.1 cm x D1.0 cm 370 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 370
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