History A-Level
Luddism and the Swing Riots
What Luddism and the Swing Riots means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Luddism attacked machinery in the Midlands and North, while the Swing Riots targeted agricultural threshing machines and poor law authorities in southern England; both were suppressed but exposed grievances.
Topics that use Luddism and the Swing Riots
- Paper 1, Option 1D: Britain, c1785–c1870: democracy, protest and reform - 2 Industrialis- ation and protest, c1785–c1870 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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