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Dorset

An example of a Captain Swing letter

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…
The Tolpuddle martyrs

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…
The Bridport wildcat strikers

The Bridport wildcat strike, 1912

A very brief account of the wildcat strike of women workers in Bridport, Dorset.

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.

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