Tag: Captain Swing

• Captain Swing: did the riots follow the machines?

  

  In 1830 English farm labourers smashed threshing machines. Using Caprettini and Voth’s open data I mapped 3,117 Swing incidents: parishes with a recorded machine were twice as likely to riot, but 90% of riotous parishes had no machine at all.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  automation, Captain Swing, data visualisation, maps, nineteenth-century England, rural history, Swing Riots, threshing machine