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Newsletter "Machine Breakers' News" published three times per year.
"Wiltshire Machine Breakers" pub 1993
Volume 1 The Riots & The Trials, ISBN 0-9515959-3-8, £ 10 -.
Volume 2. The Rioters, ISBN 0-915959-3-8
ISBN for both Volumes 0-95159-5-4, Sold as a set"Buckinghamshire Machine Breakers" republished 1998 ISBN 0-95159-9-7
"Hampshire Machine Breakers" 2nd Ed & updated, pub 1996 ISBN 0-9515959-70
Extracts from: "Hampshire Machine Breakers""Berkshire Machine Breakers"
"Rebels Of The Fields", pub 1995, ISBN 0-9515959-6-2 - Robert Mason and the Convicts of the Eleanor
Jill is also indexing PRO records:
Petitions Index 1819-1839 *Part 1 - HO/17/40 - 49.
Letters to the Home Office from family members, friends, incumbents, employers etc, appealing for reduction of sentence on behalf of hundreds of men tried & sentenced from all over England & Wales + few from Scotland & Ireland).
Available: A4 paperback & Fiche
Part 2 of above HO/17 50-59 is being finalised & this will be going to printers soon.
Available from:-
"Captain Swing"
E J Hobsbawm and George RudÈ
Lawrence and Wishart 1969
'Captain Swing is a splendid study of the wave of agrarian unrest which swept south and eastern England towards the end of 1830. With painstaking research the authors have managed to reconstruct, in some detail, the events of that year, as well as the subsequent history of those rioters who were transported to Australia. Their most important achievement, however, is their reintegration into history of the "little people", those ordinary villagers who so rarely make an appearance. Despite the detail of their account (the really heavy data is consigned to the sixty pages of appendices), Hobsbawm and RudÈ succeeded in producing a remarkably approachable work of social history, and Pimlico are to be applauded for reissuing their classic study.'
Chapter 14, John Tongs is mentioned as being a convict who returned to England and collected his family and brought them out to VDL. "The other was John Tongs, a blacksmith of Timsbury, in Hampshire, who returned to England from Tasmania shortly after his free pardon in 1836. But he did not remain there long, and in January 1843, he re-appeared in Hobart as a free migrant with his wife, a daughter and three sons."
Later in the same chapter John Tongs is cited as being a Weslyan Methodist.
"Protest and Punishment"
"The Story of the Social and Political Protesters transported
to Australia 1788-1868"
George RudÈ
Oxford University Press 1978
Part Four. Australian Exile, Chapter 4. Van Diemen's Land:
'......was John Tongs, a blacksmith from Tinsbury (sic), in Hampshire, who returned to England from Tasmania shortly after his pardon in 1836. But he did not remain there long and, in January 1843, he reappeared in Hobart as a ree migrant with his wife, a daughter, and three sons.'
For a description of the Prison Hulk system and what it was
like to be a part of it read:
"The English Prison Hulks"
Auth: W. Branch-Johnson
Pub: 1957, Christopher Johnson, London
'Distinctive and rare travel journals of nineteenth century working people sailing to Australia'
"No Privacy for Writing - Shipboard diaries 1852-1879"
Andrew Hassam
Available from Melbourne University Press
Eight diaries, written on the long sea journey from the Old World to the New, are reproduced for the first time. They cover the peak years of mass migration by sail to Australia.
Joseph Mason - Assigned Convict, 18311837
Edited by David Kent and Norma Townsend
Available from Melbourne University Press
'The Revolt of the Hampshire Agricultural Labourers and its
Causes, 1812-1831"
A M Colson, This is a thesis - copies held in the Hampshire records
office and University of London - as yet unsighted by me - if
anyone has access to either of these institutions .........!
Home Office Documents;
HO 17/50 HP13 An appeal for Tongs and Fielder
HO 17/50 HP13 A reply to an appeal by Lord Melbourne
"Popular Radicalism and the Swing Riots in Central Hampshire"
by David Kent (1997)
Available from Hampshire Records office: sadeax@hants.gov.uk
"The Archers of Van Diemans Land
A History of Pioneer Pastoral Families"
Neil Chick 1991
A whole chapter on Joseph of 'Panshanger' where John Tongs served time.
"One
Monday in November". (A Play)
"Middlemarch" - carry
out a search on 'macine-breaking' and 'rick-burning'
"To Hell or Hobart"
By Patrick Howard
Kangaroo Press 1993 ISBN 0 86417 5507
Detail of the convicts life.
British Parliamentarty Papers
(Irish University Press)
Vol 19 1837 (518)
Select Committee on Transportation P290-291 - 27 June 1837.
A description by Colonel G. Arthur of the trip experienced by
the Hampshire machine breakers on the 'Eliza'.
Paragraphs 4326 to 4337
"Convicts and the Colonies"
AGL Shaw
Faber and Faber 1966
"Jude and Jeud"
A trilogy set in Hampshire during the times of the 1830 riots
and trials.
"The Convict Ships 1787-1868"
Charles Bateson
Brown, Son & Ferguson 1959
The history of Convict Ships
"Eliza II arrived in V.D.L. 29th May 1831, Master was Rbt.
Donal and Surgeon Rchd. Lewis , she had sailed 6/1/31 from Downs
and trip took 112 days."
"The
Village Labourer" - a version of this is 'on-line'
J L Hammond and Barbara Hammond
Longmans 1911
Also at http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/hammond/village.html
"A Shepherd's Life"
W.H. Hudson
J.M. Dent and Sons 1936
"Captain Swing - A Play
A Romantic Play of 1830"
By F. Brett Young and W. Edward Stirling
W. Collins & Son 1919
"Social Protest in a Rural Society - The Spacial Difusion
of the Captian Swing Disturbances of 1839-1831"
Adrian Charlesworth - October 1979
Historical Research Series
Dept Geography - University of Liverpool
"Heartsease"
T.R. Wilson
In 1830, rural southern England is convulsed by the Swing Riots.
Jacob Wintergreen, suspected of being a radical agitator, is betrayed
by his friend, Abel Jex, and sentenced to transportation. He dies
soon after, leaving a wife and two children - Jed and Charlotte
- whose only resort is the workhouse. Over a decade later, Jed
learns that he has been named sole executor of Abel Jex's will;
he and his sister have been lifted out of poverty by the man who
betrayed them. Filled with vindication, Jed returns to claim the
inheritance in defiance of those who excluded him years before...
General Fiction 0 7089 8899 7 672pp
The Eliza's voyage is mentioned in two books:
"Log of Logs,
Vols. 1 & 2"
and
"Arrivals and Departures - Tasmania 1803-1833".
Some Web Pages of Interest:-
Background to the Swing Riots
- especially the poor laws.
Village Finances in 1830
The
Struggle for the Land
A
well told story about William Nibb a swing rioter and machine
breaker
Geoff SHARMAN's website
John Nash a swing rioter
The
rioters used the name "Captain Swing"
Confronting Industrial Agriculture
Village of Findon, West Sussex,
U.K.
ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA
The Angry Brigade
Archive and Resources
Swing riots in Banbury
Rural Resistance 1800-1914:
Custom, Community and Conflict in South Oxfordshire
A commemorative plaque in honour
of Machine Breakers from Wonston.
The swing riots are a tourist
'draw card'! (see Tour 2).
"Swing Riots"and
"Machine Breakers" of Wiltshire
1830 Work House Riots
Trouble
House Inn has Swing Riot connections.
THE
CORNWELLS: A FAMILY HISTORY
'John Clare and William Cobbett:
the Personal and the Political'
Class struggles.
Become a modern Luddite!!!
Neo-Luddite Web Sites.
Selborne
& Headley Workhouse Riots of 1830
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