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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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Thomas Guy

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Sir Robert Wroth

Sir Robert Wroth

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Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Michael Fallon

Michael Fallon

 MP, Secretary of State for Defence in 2014.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Denis Bond

Denis Bond

Probably born Dorset. Sat in the House of Commons (MP for Dorchester) in two periods between 1640 and 1656. He supported the Parliamentarian cause in the English Civil War and served as president o...

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St Columba's Church Haggerston

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1 memorial
Percy Arnold Lloyd-Jones
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