The Last Rising of the Agricultural Labourers, Rural Life and Protest in Nineteenth-Century England by Barry Reay

The Last Rising of the Agricultural Labourers, Rural Life and Protest in Nineteenth-Century England

Barry Reay

192 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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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...

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