‘Uniting Together to Preserve Ourselves’: The Tolpuddle Martyrs
Every year for one weekend in July, the small village of Tolpuddle, Dorset is flooded with tourists, socialists, politicians and representatives from a host of British Trade Unions. These visitors, numbering in their thousands, flock to the area to ‘celebrate the start of trade unionism’ and remember the story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs.[1] On the … Read more
