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Newport uprising

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Title Newport uprising
Description Witness Statement: Richard Rorke finishing the account of his actions

or ridiculing their neighbours by calling them nicknames, I was always an Enemy to it entirely - there is nothing else I have to say Rich d Rorke Taken before us Ovtavius Morgan James Coles Sam Homfray Tho s Hawkins W Brewer T Phillips

9 [Page number bottom centre]
Item URL https://www.peoplescollection.wales/items/533249
Date 01 January 1839 to 01 January 1840
Community archive People's Collection Wales
Subject

'Criminal System'

'Coal'

'Iron'

'Mining (Other)'

'OTHER: Industry'

'Civil and Political Rights'

'Elections and Electioneering'

'OTHER: War

Protest and Politics'

'Political Parties'

'Trade Unionism and Labour Disputes'

Chartism

Peoples history

victorian

Law

legal system

Chartist

Protest

popular protest

Newport uprising

Gwent

Level Item
Author Unlocking the Chartist Trials/ Datgloi Achosion y Siartwyr

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