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Wiltshire industrial history : working class episodes /

Material type: TextTextPublication details: Wiltshire : WaterMarx on behalf of White Horse (Wiltshire) Trades Council, 2011.Description: 36 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780957072602
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Contents:
Introduction / Rosie MacGregor -- Phyllis and Idris Rose: Trowbridge Communist councillors / Dave Chapple -- Swing rebellion in Wiltshire / Nigel Costley -- Chartism and rural workers in Wiltshire / Steve Poole -- Strikes and socialism in Swindon: the 1960s and 1970s / Derique Montaut -- The Trowbridge martyr: Thomas Helliker and the Wiltshire outrages of 1802 / Adrian Randall.

Based on a series of talks given at a local history day-school at St. Margaret's Hall, Bradford on Avon on 6 November 2010.

Introduction / Rosie MacGregor -- Phyllis and Idris Rose: Trowbridge Communist councillors / Dave Chapple -- Swing rebellion in Wiltshire / Nigel Costley -- Chartism and rural workers in Wiltshire / Steve Poole -- Strikes and socialism in Swindon: the 1960s and 1970s / Derique Montaut -- The Trowbridge martyr: Thomas Helliker and the Wiltshire outrages of 1802 / Adrian Randall.

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