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    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...
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    Merthyr Tydfil (Welsh: Merthyr Tudful) is the main town in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, Wales, administered by Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • the Merthyr Rising of 1831, a pamphlet in which he somewhat imaginatively retells the story of the rebellion.[citation needed] While in Merthyr Tydfil...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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,...
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    the United Kingdom Peterloo Massacre Reform League 1920 blind march Merthyr Rising Hunger marches, National Hunger March, 1932 Jarrow March Make Poverty...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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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  • on the west coast of Sumatra  Dutch Empire Sumatran Rebels 1831 1831 Merthyr Rising  British Empire Coal Miners 1831 1831 Turner's Rebellion  United States...
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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...
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    establishment of "modern" parliamentary, Western-style system. 1867: The Fenian Rising: an attempt at a nationwide rebellion by the Irish Republican Brotherhood...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • Castle Inn where negotiations with the employers had broken down (the Merthyr Rising). Rioters tried to disarm the Highlanders, who opened fire, killing...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • trilogy. This began with The Fire People, set in Merthyr Tydfil against the background of the 1831 Merthyr Rising, for which Cordell did considerable research...
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