Share
The Other Side of England: Part 2: No Bread, No Work, No Hope (in English)
Joseph Canning
(Author)
·
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
· Paperback
The Other Side of England: Part 2: No Bread, No Work, No Hope (in English) - Canning, Joseph
$ 13.60
$ 17.00
You save: $ 3.40
Choose the list to add your product or create one New List
✓ Product added successfully to the Wishlist.
Go to My WishlistsIt will be shipped from our warehouse between
Monday, July 08 and
Tuesday, July 09.
You will receive it anywhere in United States between 1 and 3 business days after shipment.
Synopsis "The Other Side of England: Part 2: No Bread, No Work, No Hope (in English)"
England's last revolution......when early in the Nineteenth Century thousands of agricultural labourers, near to starving, living in abject poverty, without bread, without work and without hope, subject to the most draconian laws in Europe and ruled by an unsympathetic Parliament of land-owning gentry, hoisted the black flag of anarchy and the 'Tricolour' of revolution and marched across the southern counties of England, destroying farm machinery, burning barns and straw stacks and terrorising the rich.'Bread or blood!' they chanted and the Government, fearing a revolution akin to France, were swift and brutal in their response. Mass arrests were made and mass trials conducted at special assize courts, followed by hangings and imprisonment and wholesale transportation to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land...
