Pub Closures & the Tolpuddle Martyrs: How the State Has Always Feared Working People Gathering Together - read the latest substack article - wecanworkitout.substack.com/p/pub-closur...
#tradeunions #labourlaw #workersrights #tolpuddlemartyrs
The #TolpuddleMartyrs were six agricultural labourers who tried to form a #union in Dorset, England, as their income was near starvation level. They were sentenced on #ThisDayInHistory in 1834 to transportation to an Australian #PenalColony, later returning due to mass protests.
On this day in 1834 Six farm workers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, were sentenced to be transported to Australia 🇦🇺 for the crime of swearing an illegal oath - though in reality for having founded a trade union. They became known as the #TolpuddleMartyrs. #otd
www.tolpuddlemartyrs.org.uk/story
Great performance last night in #TolpuddleOldChapel Telling the powerful story of the women the #TolpuddleMartyrs left behind. The first of our Sunday Session events. Many thanks to #TimeAndTide #Tolpuddle #Australia #Canada #heritage #history #TolpuddleOldChapelTrust @tuc.org.uk
Great performance last night in #TolpuddleOldChapel Telling the powerful story of the women the #TolpuddleMartyrs left behind. The first of our Sunday Session events. Many thanks to #TimeAndTide #Tolpuddle #Australia #Canada #heritage #history #TolpuddleOldChapelTrust @tuc.org.uk
Great performance last night in #TolpuddleOldChapel Telling the powerful story of the women the #TolpuddleMartyrs left behind. The first of our Sunday Session events. Many thanks to #TimeAndTide #Tolpuddle #Australia #Canada #heritage #history #TolpuddleOldChapelTrust @tuc.org.uk
Great performance last night in #TolpuddleOldChapel Telling the powerful story of the women the
#TolpuddleMartyrs left behind. The first of our Sunday Session events. Many thanks to the #TimeAndTide players
#Tolpuddle #Australia #Canada #heritage #history #TolpuddleOldChapelTrust
@tuc.org.uk
Coming soon #history #womeninhistory #heritage #TolpuddleMartyrs #Dorset
For all our friends and supporters this Christmas wherever they are 🎄 #Australia #Canada #TolpuddleMartyrs #Tolpuddle #Dorset 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇬🇧
To keep our friends in Australia and Canada up-to-date with activities at the Tolpuddle Old Chapel
#TolpuddleMartyrs #conservation #heritage #restoration 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇨🇦
Country we sent our convicts to populate gets fooled by Israeli intelligence. Not much intellectual advancement in all that time eh?
Just kidding. I love Aussies as much as anyone does.
But it's true we sent convicts there, guilty or not. See #TolpuddleMartyrs
open.substack.com/pub/thegrayz...
GMB Union proudly marched in Tolpuddle today, standing alongside fellow trade unionists.
The Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival is an important moment for the trade union movement – a time to reflect on the struggles and victories of the past.
@gmb.org.uk
#Tolpuddle2025 #GMBUnion #TolpuddleMartyrs
Fair chance I will be arrested tomorrow. I support Palestine Action. #TolpuddleMartyrs
👉 Why not come and see us? The Old Chapel will be open from 10am to 4pm today #TolpuddleFestival2025 #TolpuddleMartyrs #GeorgeLoveless #conservation #heritage #history #Dorset
The restored Tolpuddle Old Chapel
The restored Tolpuddle Old Chapel
👉 Tolpuddle Old Chapel looking good in the sunshine today after our 10th anniversary Annual General Meeting last night. Thanks to all those who attended and continue to support us #heritage #conservation #craftskills #TolpuddleMartyrs @tucsouthwest.bsky.social #Tolpuddle #Dorset
👉 The Trustees will share their report on the last year, update you on recent changes and our plans for the year ahead #TolpuddleOldChapel #conservation #heritage #TolpuddleMartyrs #Tolpuddle #Dorset
Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival 2025 line-up poster!!
Yet another dynamic and diverse programme of music, comedy, theatre and more ☺️
18th - 20th July in the village of Tolpuddle, Dorset
Tickets and festival info at www.tolpuddlemartyrs.org.uk/festival
#tolpuddlemartyrs #tradeunion #billybragg
👉 A remarkable building and part of the martyrs legacy #conservation #craftskills #heritage #history #Tolpuddle #TolpuddleMartyrs #Dorset
If you happen to be in Dorset on a Thursday, do drop by Tolpuddle and visit the restored old chapel and explore its connection to the #TolpuddleMartyrs #TradesUnions and #socialjustice
Today, 21st April is the 191st anniversary of 100,000 people marching to Whitehall in protest at the fate of the #TolpuddleMartyrs. Join us on 27th April to hear more stories about this site.
There are plenty of LAUGHS at #tolpuddlemartyrs too with Saturday night's #tolpuddlecomedy 😆
This year's line-up sees the return of the brilliant Simon Munnery alongside Eliza Fraser, James O'Donoghue and Jon Matthews, delivering political content & other observations from life's rich tapestry!
Fresh and uplifting music for #tolpuddlemartyrs 2025 with our Friday night headliner @thehalfwaykid.bsky.social 🤩
buff.ly/PEZOH9g
Currently blazing a trail independently both online and offline, The Halfway Kid brings his brilliant full band show to Tolpuddle 2025 on Friday 18th July 💖
The #Tasmania link to the #TolpuddleMartyrs is that #GeorgeLoveless was transported here in 1834 for making an unlawful oath, but it was really for forming a union to protest wage cuts.
Every Tasmanian need to know about our proud union history, and honour our Tolpuddle comrades. #convicthistory
Tolpuddle Old Chapel/community space
Tolpuddle Old Chapel/community space
Tolpuddle Old Chapel/ community space looking particularly good this morning 😀
#TolpuddleOldChapelTrust #communityspaces #TolpuddleMartyrs #heritage #conservation #craftskills #Tolpuddle #TUC #Dorset
The Union forever defending our rights
Down with the blackleg, all workers unite
With our brothers and our sisters together we will stand
There is power in a Union
#BillyBragg
#MusicSky
#TolpuddleMartyrs are banished to Austrialia for forming a union
On this day in 1834 Six farm workers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, were sentenced to be transported to Australia 🇦🇺 for the crime of swearing an illegal oath - though in reality for having founded a trade union. They became known as the #TolpuddleMartyrs. #otd
www.tolpuddlemartyrs.org.uk/story
After the Swing Riots (which will be the subject of their own article in due course) led to violent reprisals against the perpetrators, conditions #EssentialWessex #TolpuddleMartyrs https://wessexsociety.com/?p=11415
