Now! Then! 2024! - Yorkshire On This Day

A Yorkshire Almanac Comprising 366 Historical Extracts, Red-letter Days and Customs, and Astronomical and Meteorological Data

Entries for the tag ‘1842 general strike’

Aka the Plug Riots, and influenced by Chartism: the biggest single exercise of working class strength in nineteenth-century Britain.

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