Swing Riots of 1830 in which agricultural workers in Elham Valley, near Kent, destroyed threshing machines, burned ricks, smashed barns and workhouses, and maimed cattle—in short, attacked the visible signs of the new capitalist relations being imposed on agrarian production and rural life, more broadly.
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circa. The start of the month Autumn 1830 to circa. Winter 1831
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