Tag: Protest and riots

• Did enclosure cause the Swing riots? A test on every parish

  

  Historians have long blamed enclosure for the Swing riots of 1830. I linked every enclosure Act to 9,674 parishes and wrote the test down first: enclosed parishes rioted a little more, but the gap looks like parish size, not grievance.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, Chance test, Enclosure, England, Farming, food and drink, Georgian, history, industry, landscape, Protest and riots

• 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

  Britain, Chance test, Enclosure, England, Farming, food and drink, Georgian, history, industry, Poverty and wealth, Protest and riots