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Rural Unrest in the 1830s: the "Swing" riots
In the mid-1820s,
William Cobbett toured southern England on horseback, reporting on its cultivation, the standard of living of its labourers, and the decline of its traditional practices such as
living-in. He claimed that new money and new urban styles were upsetting the placid stable rural economy. In 1830 the rural workers of the arable south and east of England rose in the Swing riots. They demanded
higher wages and an end to the threshing machine which destroyed their winter employment. They reinforced their demands with rick-burning, the destruction of the threshing machines and cattle-maiming among other things.
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