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Halifax 1842 - A Year of Crisis (Paperback, 1st)
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Halifax 1842 - A Year of Crisis (Paperback, 1st)
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1842 was a year of crisis in Britain, and no more so than in the
West Riding town of Halifax. A great strike of all trades took
place across England in 1842. It reached its zenith in the
industrial towns of the north, starting in the small communities of
Lancashire and quickly spreading to the West Riding of Yorkshire as
Lancashire marchers poured across the Pennines. In hand with its
neighbouring town of Huddersfield, Halifax was noted for its
opposition to the New Poor Law which, in 1834, attempted to abolish
outdoor relief for the poor, for its support of a maximum ten-hour
working day and the Chartists' call for workers' voting rights.
When Bradford publican 'Fat Peter' Bussey attended the first
Chartist Convention in London in 1839, he took with him the West
Riding petition bearing 52,800 signatures, 25 percent of which had
been given at Halifax. This book discusses the efforts made by the
men and women of Halifax in these early years of organised
agitation for social reform, their 'clandestine meetings and
nightly drilling', their 'determination, resilience and militancy'
to gain a say in the laws under which they lived. It tells of the
fight for the legislative rights of workers like seventeen-year-old
Patience Kershaw, who dragged loads of coal for twelve hours each
day along narrow and dangerous passages under the hills of Halifax.
When the Lancashire marchers arrived at Halifax in the hot summer
of 1842, the cavalry attempted to clear the streets with their
sabres and a violent response was inevitable, arrests quickly
followed. The climax came when many hundreds of the men and women
of Halifax fought against British soldiers on 16th August 1842, an
event which led to the humiliation of a proud platoon of Prince
Albert's Own and to the death of at least six men of Halifax.
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