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Swing Unmasked "Swing Unmasked" - Major new book about the Captain Swing Agrarian Riots (1830-1832) that contains new evidence about the extent of the riots and the people who were involved. Edited by Michael Holland, 312 pages, FACHRS Publications 2005.

Contents

bulletPreface
Michael Kemp
bulletList of 19 tables, 7 figures, 32 illustrations, 14 maps
 
bulletCoinage conversion table & coinage terms
 
bulletSwing Riot prices at today's (2005) values
 
bulletList of researchers and contributors
 

Chapters

 
1 The Captain Swing Project Michael Holland
2 Swing Riots in Surrey Judy Hill and MAry James
3 Fire the Farms, when the shadow of Captain Swing reached Shropshire.
Appendix lll.A: Extracts from the Shrewsbury Chronicle
Appendix lll.B: Adoption of Farm MAchinery, 1772-1880
Appendix lll.C: Valuation of Property destroyed in the fires, 1830-31
Appendix lll.D: LAst confession of JAmes Lea
James S Leach and Norman Davies
4 Burn up the Pashnidge, the Swing Riots in Essex Michael Holland
5 Swing in Derbyshire Clive Leivers
6 Down with Machinery!, an investigation into the Wycombe Paper Mill Riots of 1830 Vanessa Worship
7 Between the Lines
Appendix Vll.A Rural Queries for Berkshire
Valerie Batt-Rawden
8 The Life and Death of Richard Nockolds, hand loom weaver of Norwich Stella Evans
9 The British Cholera Riots of 1832 Sean Burrell and Geoff Gill
10 The Reverend Swing! Clive Leivers
11 Transportation of Prisoners and the Settling of Sydney Cove
Appendix X1.A Officers, Men & Passengers sailing with the First fleet.
Appendix X1.B: Family Tree of Ann Forbes or Butler or Huxley
Reay Ferguson
Appendix 1: List of Offenders, Date of offence and Parish  
Appendix 2: List of victims of Swing Protest  
Consolidated Bibliography  
Surname Index  
Subject Index  
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