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Revolt of the housewives

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Local actions were taken by magistrates against named rioters – such as a 3-month prison sentence for Sarah Rogers of Fordingbridge, who redistributed butter belonging to Hannah Dawson at a fair price. More positively, a number of local initiatives are reported, especially in the provision of fuel at
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Scarcity of food led to riots across the country, in which women led or were conspicuous by their involvement. Rioters forced the redistribution of available food-stocks; the Hammonds' characterise them as being disciplined and of good order, and, on finding themselves "masters of their situation",
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National discussion turned on a number of questions, such as of diet: could the poor be persuaded to subsist on cheaper brown breads and dispense with their use of tea? It appeared that they could not. Deliberations were made into the desirability of pegging minimum wages to the cost of provisions
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resulting from ice breakup, snowmelt and heavy rainfall. Such poor weather led to exceptional scarcity of food early in the year, precipitating a crisis that, with enclosure and the poor law, had long been in the making.
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brought in by magistrates to quell the riots joined with the rioters to redistribute meat and flour, for which two ringleaders among the soldiers were shot on 13 June. In
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in the period from c.1760, which removed common rights – to cultivate, or graze animals, or collect fuel – previously exercised by
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series with an average of βˆ’3.1 Β°C or 26.4 Β°F., and great floods are reported in February on the Rivers
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the rioters set fair prices for seized food and paid the proceeds over to its original owner.
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The winter of 1794–95 was exceptionally harsh: January 1795 was the coldest month ever in the
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for a series of food riots and disturbances in England in 1795. They arose out of exceptional
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The government also undertook to bring in grains from abroad from Canada, Europe, and even
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introduced a minimum wage bill into Parliament late in 1795, winning support from
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reasonable prices for poor parishioners; and more complex support such as the
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Actions against memorials in Great Britain during the George Floyd protests
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Riots involving women forcing food redistribution were reported in
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speculates that men wearing petticoats were amongst the rioters.
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Index

John Lawrence Hammond
Barbara Hammond
food scarcity
enclosure of land
Yeomen
Copyholders
Cottagers
Squatters
English Poor Laws
French Revolution
Central England temperature
Severn
Wye
Aylesbury
Carlisle
Ipswich
Fordingbridge
Bath
Deddington
Seaford, East Sussex
militia
Chudleigh
Speenhamland system
Edmund Burke
Arthur Young
Samuel Whitbread
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Charles Grey
Charles James Fox
William Pitt the Younger

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