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...

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...

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...

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...

unemployed Nottingham stockinger and probable ex-Luddite, led the Pentrich Rising. While this was a general uprising unrelated to machinery, it can be...

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...

which they emanate, all serviceable measures." Events such as the Pentrich rising, the March of the Blanketeers and the Spa Fields meeting, all serve...

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...

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...

period of suspension was also passed. Meanwhile, the Pentridge or Pentrich Rising in Derbyshire in June 1817 continued the trend of insurrection among...