If you would like to know more about #Kintbury local man Edmund Steele, transported to Australia for his involvement in the #SwingRiots of 1830, we have an extremely interesting article on our blog written by a descendant of his:
kintburyandbeyond.co.uk/2024/03/22/a...
If you would like to know more about William Winterbourn, the Kintbury Martyr, check out our website, kintburyandbeyond.co.uk, particularly the articles, The Kintbury Martyr, 1,2 & 3. #SwingRiots #KintburyMartyr
The image is a cartoon of a wealthy landowner on horseback lording it over a starving family of labourers. The image formed the title page of a pamphlet from 1830 written in support of the Swing Riots, called "The Life and History of Swing, the Kent Rick-burner, written by himself.” The pamphlet purports to be the autobiography of Captain Swing, like General Ludd a fictitious figurehead of the movement, whose name was appended to many threatening letters in the riots.
Read about the Swing Riots of 1830 in 'Sevenoaks 1790-1914'. An early victim of labourers protesting their appalling living and working conditions was tenant farmer Jonathan Thompson, whose properties were set on fire 10 times in the space of 3 months. www.herts.ac.uk/uhpress/book... #SwingRiots
Join us at 11 o'clock on Saturday 11th January when we remember William Winterbourne, the Kintbury Martyr, hanged for his part in the Swing Riots. #Kintbury #SwingRiots #WilliamWinterbourne
