The Merthyr Rising, also referred to as the Merthyr Riots, of 1831 was the violent climax to many years of simmering unrest among the large working class...

Merthyr Tydfil (Welsh: Merthyr Tudful) is the main town in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, Wales, administered by Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council...

the Merthyr Rising of 1831. It is claimed to be the first time that the red flag was waved as a banner of workers' power. The red flags of Merthyr became...

Merthyr Tydfil County Borough (Welsh: Bwrdeistref Sirol Merthyr Tudful) is a county borough (since 1908) in the south-east of Wales. In 2022, it had an...

was a Welsh labourer and coal miner who lived in Merthyr Tydfil and was involved with the Merthyr Rising of 3 June 1831. In the course of the riot he was...

value of his lands in Glamorganshire. When violence broke out in the Merthyr Rising of 1831, Bute led the government response from Cardiff Castle, despatching...

see Richard Trevithick. Penydarren is a community and electoral ward in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough in Wales. The area is most notable for being the...

by some, and his employees took part in the protests that led to the Merthyr Rising of 1831. He was responsible for the building of Cyfarthfa Castle (now...

controversy regarding the hanging of Dic Penderyn, a protester in the Merthyr Rising who was then, and is now, widely judged to have been innocent. He appears...

the Merthyr Rising of 1831, a pamphlet in which he somewhat imaginatively retells the story of the rebellion.[citation needed] While in Merthyr Tydfil...

Merthyr Tydfil was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Merthyr Tydfil in Glamorgan. From 1832 to 1868 it returned one Member of Parliament...

gallows at St. Mary's Street, Cardiff for allegedly participating in the Merthyr Rising. 21 March 1834: George Capel was hanged in Aylesbury for bestiality...

Merthyr Tydfil Town Hall (Welsh: Neuadd y Dref Merthyr Tudful) is a municipal building in the High Street, Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. The town hall,...

transported for his part in the Merthyr Rising of 1831 Dic Penderyn (Richard Lewis, 1807/8–1831), the central figure of the Merthyr Rising of 1831, was not from...

1830s, many Welsh people from the Merthyr steelworks immigrated to the city following the aftermath of the Merthyr Rising. By the 1840s, Pittsburgh was one...

the United Kingdom Peterloo Massacre Reform League 1920 blind march Merthyr Rising Hunger marches, National Hunger March, 1932 Jarrow March Make Poverty...

Peter's Field. Led to the enacting of the Six Acts. May – 7 June 1831 Merthyr Rising Merthyr Tydfil, Wales 24-26 70+ Described by historian John Davies as "the...

Cordell's writings. It tells of events leading up to the 1831 Merthyr Rising in Merthyr Tydfil and surrounding areas in South Wales. Cordell's style and...

known as Dic Penderyn, who was sentenced to death after leading the Merthyr Rising of 1831. The song would be later included in further albums (including...

Last Rising: The 1839 Newport Insurrection. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 29. ISBN 0-19-820102-8. Williams, Gwyn A. (1978). The Merthyr Rising. Cardiff:...

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was at Merthyr Tydfil. Then the largest town in Wales (with a population of 34,977 in 1841), it had a long radical tradition. The Merthyr Rising had taken...

establishment of "modern" parliamentary, Western-style system. 1867: The Fenian Rising: an attempt at a nationwide rebellion by the Irish Republican Brotherhood...

especially Merthyr Tydfil and adjoining areas, gave rise to strong and radical Welsh working class movements which led to the Merthyr Rising of 1831, the...

Castle Inn where negotiations with the employers had broken down (the Merthyr Rising). Rioters tried to disarm the Highlanders, who opened fire, killing...

execution by hanging for the non-fatal stabbing of a soldier during the Merthyr Rising. Another man confessed to the stabbing on his deathbed in 1874. "Only...

on record. The name Rebecca is also mentioned in the context of the Merthyr Rising of 1831 in the song "Ironmasters" by the British folkpunk band The Men...

sometimes termed "the Castle party". During the violent protests of the Merthyr Rising of 1831, the marquess based himself at Cardiff Castle, from which he...

helped build the culture of the South Wales Valleys communities. The Merthyr Rising of 1831 was a protest against exploitation by the mine owners which...

quarries around Vaynor, a village in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, Wales. Vaynor lies north of the A465 road and Merthyr Tydfil town. There are many limestone...