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Tolpuddle Martyrs

6 Dorset farm labourers, transported to Australia for joining a trade union. Following mass protests against their treatment the government was forced to give pardons and eventually after 2 years, all returned home. Five of them continued their campaign and supported the Chartists.

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Tolpuddle Martyrs

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Tolpuddle Martyrs at Copenhagen Fields

Copenhagen Fields From this site on 21st April 1834 thousands marched in sup...

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Tolpuddle Martyrs mural

A modern information board informs that the mural was painted by Dave Bangs i...

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C. E. Wilson

C. E. Wilson

Church Warden of St Alban, Wood Street in 1865.

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W. F. D. Smith, Lord Hambleden

W. F. D. Smith, Lord Hambleden

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James Clarke Lawrence

James Clarke Lawrence

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Person, Lord Mayor, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Sir Edward David Stern

Sir Edward David Stern

1st and last Baronet of Chertsey.  Son of David Stern.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah

First President and first Prime Minister of Ghana.  Born in the Gold Coast Colony, now Ghana.  Birth date uncertain.  As a young man he studied first in the USA and then London, at the LSE.  While ...

Person, Politics & Administration, Africa, Ghana

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