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"The Tolpuddle Martyrs 1834–37: A Case of Human Rights" History Today (Jan 1968), Vol. 18 Issue 1, pp 14–21; online; covers 1834 to 1840. Tolpuddle Martyrs' Story Tolpuddle Martyrs Museum Trust Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb , The History of Trade Unionism (1894) ch III, 'The Revolutionary Period', 144 ff on Tolpuddle's Dorchester Labourers
It was determined to be 320 years old in 2005, making it 150 years old when the Tolpuddle Martyrs used it as a meeting place. [1] It is the largest sycamore in Dorset, with a girth of 1.3 metres (4 ft 3 in). The sycamore is managed by the National Trust, which regularly pollards the tree to reduce weight on its branches and encourage crown growth.
On 21 April 1834, more than 50,000 people marched in London to protest the treatment of the Tolpuddle Martyrs. In March 1836 the British government gave a full pardon to all six of the Martyrs. On hearing the news, Loveless refused immediate free passage back to Britain as he had some months previously written to his wife requesting that she ...
The martyrs usually met in the cottage of Thomas Standfield in Tolpuddle on the Dorchester Road. This cottage and the adjoining, semi-detached cottage were listed for preservation as Grade I in 1956 as the Martyrs' Cottages ( 50°44′56″N 2°17′32″W / 50.748968°N 2.292084°W / 50.748968; -2.292084
R v Lovelass and Others (1834) 172 ER 1380 is a formative case in the history of UK labour law. [1] It saw the Tolpuddle Martyrs, farm workers who wished to form a union to prevent wage cuts, convicted and deported to Australia. It triggered protests, which led to the workers' eventual release and return to Britain.
The Tolpuddle Martyrs' Festival and Rally is an annual festival held in the village of Tolpuddle, in Dorset, England, which celebrates the memory of the Tolpuddle Martyrs. The event is a celebration of trade unionism and labour politics organised by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) South West office, with the support of unions. The festival is ...
They became known as the Tolpuddle Martyrs and there was a large and successful campaign led by William Lovett to reduce their sentence. [2] They were issued with a free pardon in March 1836. The organisation was riven by disagreement over the approach to take, given that many strikes had been lost, the Tolpuddle case had discouraged workers ...
Tolpuddle (/ ˈ t ɒ l p ʌ d əl /) is a village in the civil parish of Burleston and Tolpuddle, in Dorset, England, on the River Piddle from which it takes its name, 8 miles (13 km) east of Dorchester, the county town, and 12 miles (19 km) west of Poole. The estimated population of the parish in 2013 was 420.