The Pythouse Rioters
Richard, Christina![The Pythouse Rioters](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/455/45506294/CHSBZCOP0345506294.jpg)
In November 1830 the protest movement known as the Swing Riots, which had affected many communities across southern England, reached the remote Wiltshire village of Tisbury. There, poverty stricken agricultural workers, facing the loss of their winter income following the introduction of threshing machines, assembled for a demonstration, demanding higher wages and the abolition of the dreaded machinery. This book looks at what happened to thes...