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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: re Swing Riots
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 08:59:21 +0000
In-Reply-To: <007001c0a89e$c55bc9c0$a7ecfc3e@u9y8e5>

In message <007001c0a89e$c55bc9c0$>, Moya Page
<> writes
>As was mentioned recently on this list, the swing riots in Hampshire
>are of interest to those of us with ag. lab. ancestors'
>
>I was given this information by a very helpful book searcher today.

One would think that any competent book searcher would have pointed any
enquirer about the Swing Riots to the works of Jill Chambers, who has
compiled very comprehensive volumes on these for each of the counties
involved, with full details of the trials, the persons accused, what
happened to them, details of their families in parish registers and
censuses. These are the real bibles of Swing Riot information. They are
normally called Hampshire Machine Breakers, Wiltshire Machine Breakers,
Bucks Machine Breakers etch, subtitled the Agricultural riots of 1830.
Obtainable, I think, via Family Tree Magazine, probably the SOG website,
or enquire from Jill at 4 Quills, Letchworth, Herts.

>
>Hampshire Record Office publish a booklet with illustrations entitled:
>"Popular Radicalism and the Swing Riots in Central Hampshire" by
>David Kent.
quite a nice short summary, but not nearly as useful as the Chambers
books

--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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