History GCSE

Tolpuddle Martyrs

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Six labourers transported to Australia in 1834 under an obscure law against secret oaths, rather than for forming a trade union, which was legal.

Pearson Edexcel · Option 10: c1700–c1900: Crime and punishment in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century Britain - 1 Nature and changing definitions of criminal activity (study guide)

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Option 10: c1700–c1900: Crime and punishment in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century Britain - 1 Nature and changing definitions of criminal activity (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)

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