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Swing Riots (1830)

On the Industrial Revolution map as “Lower Hardres, Kent”

28 Aug 1830 — Near Canterbury, laborers destroy a threshing machine. It is the first act of the Swing Riots. By winter some 2,000 protesters are tried: 19 are executed and about 480 transported to Australia.

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Turning point
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Luddites, Peterloo and Chartism (chapter 6 of Industrial Revolution)
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The Industrial Revolution, 1750–1914
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TURNING POINT · THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, 1750–1914

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