SWALLOWFIELD LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY

 

Our next meeting is on

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​THURSDAY  17TH APRIL 2025

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The Swing Riots​

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The Speakers from MERL will Anne Kay and Jenny Knight The Swing Riots were a widespread uprising in 1830 by agricultural workers in southern and eastern England in protest of agricultural mechanisation and harsh working conditions. The riots began with the destruction of threshing machines in the Elham Valley area of East Kent in the summer of 1830 and by early December had spread through the whole of southern England and East Anglia. It was to be the largest movement of social unrest in 19th-century England. In all, sixty percent of the disturbances were concentrated in the south (Berkshire 165 incidents, Hampshire 208, Kent 154, Sussex 145, Wiltshire 208); 

 

We Meet

IN THE ROSE ROOM AT THE PARISH HALL 7.30 pm for 8 pm

Everyone will be most welcome. Do check our web site for further information:  www.slhsoc.org.uk