Image Captain Swing was here! A short history of the 1830 Swing riots by Stuart Booth. Farm bosses would receive threatening letters from a fictional “Captain Swing”, and if…
Image The Tolpuddle martyrs, 1834 The history of the Tolpuddle martyrs: a group of six agricultural workers from Dorset, England who were sentenced to transportation to Australia…
Image The Bridport wildcat strike, 1912 A very brief account of the wildcat strike of women workers in Bridport, Dorset.
Image Bus drivers strike in Dorset Hundreds of bus drivers are staging their first in a series of strikes in a long-running row over working hours.
