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    Tolpuddle The Tolpuddle Martyrs were six agricultural labourers from the village of Tolpuddle in Dorset, England, who were arrested and tried in 1834...
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    and a museum, and a row of seated statues commemorate the martyrs. The annual Tolpuddle Martyrs festival is held in the village on the third weekend of...
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  • six agricultural workers who became known as the Tolpuddle Martyrs. Loveless was born in Tolpuddle, Dorset, England to Thomas Loveless and his wife Dinah...
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    The Tolpuddle Martyrs' Tree is a sycamore tree in the village of Tolpuddle, Dorset. The tree is approximately 336 years old. It has become associated with...
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    The Tolpuddle Martyrs' Festival and Rally is an annual festival held in the village of Tolpuddle, in Dorset, England, which celebrates the memory of the...
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    out, in the valley of Belfiore at the south entrance to Mantua. The Tolpuddle Martyrs were a group of 19th century agricultural labourers in Dorset, England...
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    : 57  Under this sycamore tree at Tolpuddle in Dorset, England, six agricultural labourers, known as the Tolpuddle Martyrs, formed an early trades union in...
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    the Tolpuddle Martyrs. Most are in Tolpuddle in Dorset while one is in Essex. The martyrs usually met in the cottage of Thomas Standfield in Tolpuddle on...
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    Jeffreys after the Monmouth Rebellion, and later the trial of the Tolpuddle Martyrs. As well as having many listed buildings, a number of notable people...
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    Shaftesbury; the doomed Monmouth Rebellion began at Lyme Regis; and the Tolpuddle Martyrs, a group of Dorset farm labourers, were instrumental in the formation...
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    Wellington's Wellingtonia, a Giant Sequoia, in Stratfield Saye, Hampshire Tolpuddle Martyrs Tree in Dorset Big Belly Oak in Savernake Forest, Wiltshire The Cage...
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    1380 is a formative case in the history of UK labour law. It saw the Tolpuddle Martyrs, farm workers who wished to form a union to prevent wage cuts, convicted...
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  • pictures of a travelling lanternist, it depicts the story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, who were arrested and transported to Australia in 1834 for trying...
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    Peter Richardson. In 1986, he appeared in Comrades, a film about the Tolpuddle Martyrs. During the brief period of British Satellite Broadcasting as an alternative...
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    (1820 and 1822); leaders of the Merthyr Tydfil rising of 1831; the Tolpuddle Martyrs (1834); Swing Rioters and Luddites (1828–1833); American and French-Canadian...
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  • The TUC also runs the Tolpuddle Martyrs Museum and annual Tolpuddle Martyrs' Festival and Rally commemorating the Tolpuddle Martyrs and their impact on...
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    with plaster reliefs of dolphins. The pub is associated with the Tolpuddle Martyrs, some of whom stayed at the hotel on their return from exile in Australia...
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    " Other events such as the founding of a friendly society by the Tolpuddle Martyrs in 1832 were key occasions in the creation of organized labor and...
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    commemorate trade unionism or history such as Burston Strike School and Tolpuddle Martyrs festival. Glastonbury Festival has a The Left Field and has been addressed...
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    [citation needed] Advocates of Irish Home Rule or trade unionism (the Tolpuddle Martyrs) sometimes received sentences of deportation to the Australian colonies...
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    Frampton (1769-1855) who was responsible for the prosecution of the Tolpuddle Martyrs. His sister Mary Frampton was a noted diarist. Moreton has become...
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    Jeremy Corbyn and Maxine Peake walking together in the procession through the village at the Tolpuddle Martyrs' Festival and Rally 2016...
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  • Harper was unveiled in Plymouth, making tribute to the Tolpuddle Martyrs. In 1837, some of the martyrs returned to Dorset from Australia after being pardoned...
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    mechanised mills of Lancashire and so remained largely rural. The Tolpuddle Martyrs lived in Dorset, and the farming economy of Dorset was central in...
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    Corbyn at the 2016 Tolpuddle Martyrs' Festival...
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  • (also now a Grade I listed building) retains the courtroom where the Tolpuddle Martyrs were sentenced to transportation to Australia for their part in the...
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  • 1934 play Six Men of Dorset (written with Harvey Brooks), about the Tolpuddle Martyrs, was later performed by local theatre groups under the guidance of...
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  • to help realise the project of Comrades, Douglas's film about the 'Tolpuddle Martyrs', six Dorset farm labourers who in 1834 were arrested and tried for...
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    Avatar Press. ISBN 978-1873-97647-0. Gallop, Alan (2017). Six for the Tolpuddle Martyrs: The Epic Struggle for Justice and Freedom. Barnsley: Pen & Sword...
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  • were local preachers, including George Loveless, the leader of the Tolpuddle Martyrs. Local preachers continue to be found in the ranks of the Labour movement:...
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