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Social history of England

  • Captain SwingOn Saturday night, the 28th of August 1830, in the Elham Valley of Kent, a threshing machine lay in ruins. Rioters had torn it apart under the cover of…
  • The Condition of the Working Class in EnglandFriedrich Engels walked the streets of Salford and Manchester between 1842 and 1844. He saw children dying from smallpox, measles, scarlet fever, and…