The Pentrich Rising (also known as the Pentrich Revolution) was an armed uprising in 1817 that began around the village of Pentrich, Derbyshire, in the...
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taken at the 2011 Census was 191. The village gave its name to the Pentrich rising, an armed uprising which occurred on the night of 9/10 June 1817. The...
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William J. Oliver (section Pentrich rising)
Blanketeers demonstration in March 1817 and soon afterwards the Pentridge or Pentrich rising, in June, and it was a time when many of Britain’s middle and upper...
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Government of the United Kingdom. He and two others, who were known as the Pentrich martyrs, were the last people to be beheaded by an axe (posthumously, after...
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unemployed Nottingham stockinger and probable ex-Luddite, led the Pentrich Rising. While this was a general uprising unrelated to machinery, it can be...
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which they emanate, all serviceable measures." Events such as the Pentrich rising, the March of the Blanketeers and the Spa Fields meeting, all serve...
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Jeremiah Brandreth, leader of a 100-strong contingent of men in the Pentrich rising and one of three men executed in 1817 at Derby Gaol. As with Edward...
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and cold, producing a very poor harvest. This led to the so-called Pentrich rising, for which three men were hanged and beheaded at Derby Gaol. The 1819...
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Derbyshire An outcome of the nearby Pentridge (or Pentrich) Rising of 1817 was for the Vicar of Pentrich Church to call for an Anglican church to be built...
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including the subsequent march of the Blanketeers (March 1817), the Pentrich rising (June 1817) and the Peterloo Massacre (August 1819) and ending only...
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