Puddy_Tat
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today's from the past tense blog - riots against the enclosure of Plumstead Common, 1876
lest we forget: the riots which have slipped from memory
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tim
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The 1882 Whitmarsh Riot in Hounslow, the family shop was across the road from the house that was ransacked and it was something we still talked about in the 1970s/1980s. In brief Dr Whitmarsh was accused of driving his partner to suicide over allegations of sexual impropriety, and locals presumably including some of my ancestors took umbrage against the doctor.
Just came across this I'd known about it from my grandfather but never seen it in print before (my grandad is mentioned by name in the paper):
In 1932 the unemployment riots in Auckland, Dunedin and Wellington were followed by the gaoling of Communists for their alleged leading role in the riots, which were consequently blamed by press and judiciary on the Communist Party.15 The accusation that the Communists 'caused' the riots was somewhat simplistic, for in the same year similar riots occurred in areas as politically and socially disparate as Belfast and Birkenhead in the British Isles, and Perth in Western Australia.16 Never- theless, the riots caused many of the unemployed to believe that the N.U.W.M. provoked violence, and to fear becoming participants in a confrontation like the Wellington riot, in which the police dispersed the crowd by 'laying about them with swift, deadly strokes . . . long batons thrusting and swinging'. Consequently they left the N.U.W.M.17
He was a CP member who took place in the Wellington hunger marchs/riots.
http://www.nzjh.auckland.ac.nz/docs/1976/NZJH_10_2_03.pdf
In 1932 the unemployment riots in Auckland, Dunedin and Wellington were followed by the gaoling of Communists for their alleged leading role in the riots, which were consequently blamed by press and judiciary on the Communist Party.15 The accusation that the Communists 'caused' the riots was somewhat simplistic, for in the same year similar riots occurred in areas as politically and socially disparate as Belfast and Birkenhead in the British Isles, and Perth in Western Australia.16 Never- theless, the riots caused many of the unemployed to believe that the N.U.W.M. provoked violence, and to fear becoming participants in a confrontation like the Wellington riot, in which the police dispersed the crowd by 'laying about them with swift, deadly strokes . . . long batons thrusting and swinging'. Consequently they left the N.U.W.M.17
He was a CP member who took place in the Wellington hunger marchs/riots.
http://www.nzjh.auckland.ac.nz/docs/1976/NZJH_10_2_03.pdf
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
My first riot- a student demo in december 1984. First time id seen the police properly in action and realised all the stuff people had been saying about their violence and brutality - esp in the miners strike - was true - and also that the media always took the polices side and repeated their lies.
I remember being stuck in a crush on the south bank as the police blocked the route onto the bridge (lambeth bridge?) - and the staff of the GLC building opened the windows and helped demonstrators climb though and get past the police lines.
A march against tuition fees – in 1984
I remember being stuck in a crush on the south bank as the police blocked the route onto the bridge (lambeth bridge?) - and the staff of the GLC building opened the windows and helped demonstrators climb though and get past the police lines.
A march against tuition fees – in 1984
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
Past Tense blog has posted today about mass opposition to the fascist march in Bermondsey, 3 October 1937
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Often overlooked and subsumed in considerations of the Swing riots and Anti-(New) Poor Law disturbances, the 1838 Battle of Bossenden Wood can arguably been seen as the last rising of the agricultural labourers and the last battle fought on English soil.
The battle in Blean woods, between Faversham & Canterbury in East Kent, was the culmination of a revolt of farm labourers immiserated by stagnant wages, rising rents, cuts to 'welfare' and a dire harvest and led by the charismatic figure of "Sir William Courtenay".
Threatened by the growing revolt and worried that further concessions to wage claims would be pressed, the local gentry, absentee landlords and civil administrators called in the military from Canterbury barracks and the ensuing battle saw 11 dead, including Courtenay.
11 surviving local labourers were sentenced for murder, with 2 transported to Australia and the rest imprisoned for 1 year.
Many of those killed by the military were buried in Hernehill (no not that one) Churchyard.
Being local to this area I can recall, as a kid, being told about the battle and the story that 'Courtenay' was mad and led the locals astray to their doom. I can see how and why it would have suited the authorities that such a take prevailed down the years.
The battle in Blean woods, between Faversham & Canterbury in East Kent, was the culmination of a revolt of farm labourers immiserated by stagnant wages, rising rents, cuts to 'welfare' and a dire harvest and led by the charismatic figure of "Sir William Courtenay".
Threatened by the growing revolt and worried that further concessions to wage claims would be pressed, the local gentry, absentee landlords and civil administrators called in the military from Canterbury barracks and the ensuing battle saw 11 dead, including Courtenay.
11 surviving local labourers were sentenced for murder, with 2 transported to Australia and the rest imprisoned for 1 year.
Many of those killed by the military were buried in Hernehill (no not that one) Churchyard.
Being local to this area I can recall, as a kid, being told about the battle and the story that 'Courtenay' was mad and led the locals astray to their doom. I can see how and why it would have suited the authorities that such a take prevailed down the years.
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