TOLPUDDLE MARTYRS

name given to six English agricultural laborers who in 1834 were prosecuted for trade union activities and sentenced to transportation. In 1833 these laborers, led by George and James Loveless (or Lovelace), formed a branch of the Friendly Society of Agricultural Laborers at Tolpuddle, in Dorset. With the approval of the Whig government, which feared a renewal of the agricultural agitation of 1831, they were arrested on the trumped-up charge of administering illegal oaths and were sentenced to seven years transportation to Australia. Public reaction throughout the country made the six into popular heroes, and the sentence was finally remitted in 1836 after continuous agitation. One of the six returned to Tolpuddle; the others emigrated to Canada.

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books on: Tolpuddle Martyrs  - 148 results

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The Complete Guide to Referencing and Avoiding Plagiarism
Book by Colin Neville; Open University Press, 2007
Subjects: Bibliographical Citations, Plagiarism
Table 10.04i Address Harvard APA BENN, Tony. (2006). Speaker. Tolpuddle Martyrs Benn, T. (2006, July 16). Speaker. Tolpuddle Festival. Dorset: Tolpuddle, 16 July 2006. Martyrs Festival. Dorset: Tolpuddle. MLA Numerical...
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George Lansbury: At the Heart of Old Labour
Book by John Shepherd; Oxford University Press, 2004
Subjects: Great Britain--Politics And Government--1901-1936, Great Britain--Social Conditions--20th Century, Lansbury, George--1859-1940, Politicians--Great Britain--Biography, Radicals--Great Britain--Biography, Socialists--Great Britain--Biography
...cottages built by the TUC at Tolpuddle as a per- manent memorial to George Loveless and his fellow Tolpuddle Martyrs. Afterwards, propped up on...association as Labour leader with the Tolpuddle centenary commemoration had a...
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The Dissenters - Vol. 2
Book by Michael R. Watts; Clarendon Press, 1995
Subjects: Dissenters, Religious--England--History, England--Church History
...were revealed by the case of the Tolpuddle martyrs. Four of the six members of...Labourers who were arrested at Tolpuddle in Dorset in February 1834 were...None the less the case of the Tolpuddle martyrs provides yet another...
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Church and State in Modern Britain, 1700-1850
Book by Richard Brown; Routledge, 1991
Subjects: Church And State--Great Britain--History--18th Century, Church And State--Great Britain--History--19th Century, Great Britain--Church History--18th Century, Great Britain--Church History--19th Century, Great Britain--Politics And Government--18th Century, Great Britain--Politics And Government--19th Century
...especially through the connected Tolpuddle Martyrs, it was even less successful...few labourers, like those at Tolpuddle, briefly organized, it spread...administering an illegal oath at Tolpuddle, it collapsed. A. E. Musson...
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The Oxford Companion to British History
Book by John Cannon; Oxford University Press, 1997
Subjects: Great Britain--History--Encyclopedias
...attempt to extend civil rights. WMM Tolpuddle martyrs. In 1834 six agricultural labourers from the village of Tolpuddle in Dorset, who formed a trade union...the * Combination Acts, and the Tolpuddle men sought only to resist a reduction...
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journal articles on: Tolpuddle Martyrs  - 4 results

 
 
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What's in a Title? Alice Munro's "Carried Away."
Journal article by Ildiko De Papp Carrington; Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 30, 1993
Subjects: Munro, Alice--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Puns and punning--Analysis, Titles of books--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...oaths ... in the village of Tolpuddle, in Dorset, England" and...1840, only a few miles from Tolpuddle, and only six years after...buzzing with the trial of the Tolpuddle Martyrs," a group of "six...combination of these key words - "martyrs," "executed," and "John...allusion to John the Baptist, a martyr executed by decapitation...
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Thomas Hardy, Alice Munro, and the Question of Influence
Journal article by Carol L. Beran; American Review of Canadian Studies, Vol. 29, 1999
Subjects: Literary criticism, Literary techniques, Literary themes
...connection between the two writers by identifying the Tolpuddle Martyrs, mentioned near the end of Munros story, as a group...of accidents and the Dorset connections with the Tolpuddle Martyrs that Carrington notes, but also points to a particular...
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Malice Aforethought: the Fictions of Ellis Sharp
Journal article by MacDonald Daly; Critique, Vol. 39, 1998
Subjects: Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism
...come largely to replace radical political action in the present. "For godsakes stop going down to commemorate the Tolpuddle Martyrs, or dont you remember, they broke the law?" urged Britains most famous trade union leader, attempting unsuccessfully...
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Lord Liverpool and the Alternatives to 'Repression' in Regency England
Journal article by John Plowright; History Review, 1997
Subjects: Civil rights--History, Liverpool, Lord--Evaluation, Political persecution--History, Prime ministers--Evaluation, United Kingdom--History, 1714-1901 (Hanoverians)
...sense of perspective regarding the contemporary winners. No doubt one can make out a case that the Chartists, the Tolpuddle Martyrs and even the Levellers were losers who were eventual winners, in as much as they can be represented as trailblazers...


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The Tolpuddle Martyrs Get the Last Laugh
Magazine article by Mark Steel; New Statesman, Vol. 137, August 4, 2008
Subjects: Agricultural laborers--Fairs and festivals, Festivals--Personal narratives, Politics--Personal narratives
The Tolpuddle Martyrs Get the Last Laugh. by Mark Steel...while I was driving to do a show at the Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival in Dorset, I was...year-old son came with me to Tolpuddle. He was telling me about a computer...
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United They Stood: Ryan Gilbey on a Playful Yet Passionate Homage to the Tolpuddle Martyrs
Magazine article; New Statesman, Vol. 138, July 20, 2009
Subjects: Comrades--Video recording reviews, Video recordings--Video recording reviews
...Yet Passionate Homage to the Tolpuddle Martyrs. Not many historical pictures...territory: Douglas traces the Tolpuddle Martyrs from the formation of...resemblance to conventional cinema as Tolpuddle does to Botany Bay. ILLUSTRATION...
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My Baguette with Vaclav
Magazine article by Saffron Burrows; New Statesman, Vol. 135, July 24, 2006
Subjects: Activists, Havel, Vaclav, Political activists, Reformers, Social reformers
...with Vaclav. by Saffron Burrows I am in a Tolpuddle frame of mind. Due to attend the Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival in Dorset, I find myself not...passing through the thoroughfare that is Tolpuddle Street in London N1. Running close by...
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Family, Faith and Flag: Progressives Are Constantly Urged to Look Forward. but Nostalgia Has Long Been Part of the Radical Political Tradition, along with Values That Now Strike Us as Conservative
Magazine article by Dominic Sandbrook; New Statesman (1996), Vol. 140, April 4, 2011
Subjects: Philosophy--Political aspects, Politics--History, Politics--Social aspects
...voters lost since 1997, sentimental evocations of a romanticised, radical tradition, or fond reminiscences of the Tolpuddle Martyrs and the miners strike, will not be enough. Instead, a healthy scepticism about the capacity of the state, a renewed...
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Group Analysis: Have the British Always Been a Nation of Networkers? the Oxford DNB's Latest Project, Introduced Here by Lawrence Goldman, Suggests That the Answer Is Yes
Magazine article by Lawrence Goldman; History Today, Vol. 57, July 2007
Subjects: Biographies--Criticism and interpretation, Biography--Criticism and interpretation, Dictionary of National Biography (Reference work)--Criticism and interpretation
...mark on British history. Many of these groups, such as the Gunpowder Plotters, Pilgrim Fathers, Lunar Society, Tolpuddle Martyrs, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood or Bloomsbury Group, are instantly recognizable and have long been the subject of...
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Alien Invaders from the Planet of New Labour; to Them the Tolpuddle Martyrs Could Well Be a Pub in Islington '
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), April 21, 1996
...Invaders from the Planet of New Labour; to Them the Tolpuddle Martyrs Could Well Be a Pub in Islington . Byline: PETER...nothing of the roots of their party. To them the Tolpuddle Martyrs could well be a watering hole in Islington. They...
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Call for a Pardon for Welsh Working Class Martyr
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), August 12, 2004
...for a Welsh working class martyr. Charlie Gale, 73, who...was a Welsh working-class martyr. He was an innocent man but...we have for a working class martyr in Wales. But floral tributes...the Rebecca Riots and the Tolpuddle Martyrs, and their actions, in turn...
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Culture: Bragg Puts Geography in Music Melting Pot; Billy Bragg Tells David Whetstone about the Imagined Village, a Very Real Gig Coming Our Way
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), November 17, 2007
Subjects: Musicians
...urban sprawl but not too far from the village of Tolpuddle, whose famous martyrs stood up against their overbearing agricultural masters and paid the price. At the Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival Bragg has been a regular speaker and...
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Festival Tribute to Union; MUSEUM FOCUS ON CHAIN FIRM DISPUTE
Newspaper article; Birmingham Evening Mail (England), March 18, 2005
...hope will grow into the significance of the annual Tolpuddle Martyrs celebration. Plans are well advanced for a week...We want to achieve the same sort of success as the Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival. We would like a lot of support for this...
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Queen Victoria and the Riddle of the Piddle; TRAVEL BRITAIN/ UP THE RIVER WITH A BLUNT ANGLO-SAXON NAME TO FIND A HALF-FORGOTTEN IDYLLIC ENGLAND
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), June 9, 1996
...at every turn. THE village of Tolpuddle was home to the six villagers who...by rights, be the Tolpiddle Martyrs. The grandest house on the Piddle...and children: 01929 405616. The Tolpuddle Martyrs Museum, open Tues-Sat, 10 am...
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encyclopedia articles on: Tolpuddle Martyrs  - 3 results

 
 
1.
Tolpuddle Martyrs
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TOLPUDDLE MARTYRS name given to six English agricultural...Society of Agricultural Laborers at Tolpuddle, in Dorset. With the approval of the...agitation. One of the six returned to Tolpuddle; the others emigrated to Canada...
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Dorchester , Town, England
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Baron Jeffreys of Wem held his Bloody Assizes in the town in 1685. It was also the site of the 1834 trial of the "Tolpuddle Martyrs," important in the history of British trade unionism. Thomas Hardy lived in Dorchester, which is the "Casterbridge...
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Melbourne, William Lamb, 2d Viscount
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...secretary (1830 34) for the 2d Earl Grey, his vigorous suppression of agrarian disturbances and trade unionism (see Tolpuddle Martyrs ) ended a reputation for indolence. A believer in aristocratic government, unsympathetic with middle-class political...


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