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THE CULTURE OF COMBINATION: SOLIDARITIES AND COLLECTIVE ACTION BEFORE TOLPUDDLE*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2015

CARL J. GRIFFIN
CARL J. GRIFFIN*
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University of Sussex
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Department of Geography, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, bn1 9sj[email protected]
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Abstract

Beyond the repression of the national waves of food rioting during the subsistence crises of the 1790s, workers in the English countryside lost the will and ability to mobilize. Or so the historical orthodoxy goes. Such a conceptualization necessarily positions the ‘Bread or Blood’ riots of 1816, the Swing rising of 1830, and, in particular, the agrarian trade unionism practised at Tolpuddle in 1834 as exceptional events. This article offers a departure by placing Tolpuddle into its wider regional context. The unionists at Tolpuddle, it is shown, were not making it up as they went along but instead acted in ways consistent with shared understandings and experiences of collective action and unionism practised throughout the English west. In so doing, it pays particular attention to the forms of collective action – and judicial responses – that extended between different locales and communities and which joined farmworkers, artisans, and industrial workers together. So conceived, Tolpuddle was not an exception. Rather, it can be more usefully understood as a manifestation of deeply entrenched cultures, an episode that assumes its historical potency because of its subsequent politicized representations.

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The Historical Journal , Volume 58 , Issue 2 , June 2015 , pp. 443 - 480
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The research on which this article is based was funded by a British Academy Small Research Grant (SG091233). An earlier version of the article was presented at the Community, Cohesion and Social Stability: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives conference held at Bangor University, 13–14 September 2012 and as a Modern British History seminar at the University of Cambridge on 21 January 2013.

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65 A strike amongst the building trades at Bideford in Devon coincided with the parliamentary debates over the repeal, but the timing was probably more obviously driven by markedly improved economic conditions, something evidenced by the fact that the strike was offensive – a demand for an additional 2s a week – rather than defensive: Western Flying Post, 3 May 1824.

66 Felix Farley's Bristol Journal, 5 Mar.; Dorset County Chronicle, 7 Apr.; Western Flying Post, 11 and 25 Apr., and 11 June 1825. Stocking frame knitters at Tewksbury had also struck work in February in an attempt to secure the same wages as had been assented to in the ‘northern counties’, the same group having petitioned parliament in early 1824 for the repeal of the Combination Laws. While wage increases were assented to, these were not sufficient from preventing some of the knitters from moving to Derby and Nottingham where higher wages were paid. Workers in Tewksbury thus being tied not into western circuits but instead those of the Midlands and north: Morning Chronicle, 10 Mar. 1824; Bath Chronicle, 17 Feb.; Felix Farley's Bristol Journal, 19 Feb. 1825.

67 Dorset County Chronicle, 20 Oct. 1825 and 26 June 1828; Felix Farley's Bristol Journal, 22 Oct. 1825, 3 and 10 Dec. 1825; Bath Chronicle, 19 June 1828; Southampton Herald, 30 Jan. and 4 Dec. 1826; Western Flying Post, 30 June 1828.

68 P. B. Purnell, Stancombe Park, to the duke of Beaufort, 31 Jan. 1826, TNA, HO 40/19, fos. 8–14.

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72 Beaufort to Peel, 17 Apr., enclosing letters from Hawkins, Stroud to Kingscote (10 Apr.) and Kingscote, Horsley to Beaufort (15 Apr.), and a copy of the rules of the ‘Gloucestershire Union…Association’; Beaufort, Grosvenor Square to Peel, 28 Apr. 1829, TNA, HO 40/23, fos. 136–40, and 157–8; Hammond and Hammond, The skilled labourer, p. 163.

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77 As Samantha Shave has recently demonstrated, the period witnessed a professionalization of the surveillance and personal scrutiny of the poor through the appointment of paid assistant overseers and the election of select vestries: Shave, S. A., ‘The impact of Sturges Bourne's poor law reforms in rural England’, Historical Journal, 56 (2013), pp. 399–429CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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93 Sherborne Journal, 12 and 19 May 1831.

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99 Account of the Dorset Yeomanry regiment by James Frampton from its reformation in 1830, DHC, D/FRA/X4; Dorset Yeomanry Cavalry Regimental Orderly Book No. 1, entry for 11 Nov. 1831, DHC,  D/DOY/A/1/1/3.

100 The precise date of the foundation of the union at Bristol is unclear: a petition calling for annual parliaments and universal suffrage from the ‘Political Union of the City of Bristol’ was presented to parliament on 7 Mar., while a meeting of trade groups on 30 May founded the ‘Bristol Political Union’, Times, 8 Mar. 1831; Lopatin, N., Political unions, popular politics, and the Great Reform Act of 1832 (Basingstoke, 1999)CrossRefGoogle Scholar, p.76; Bristol Mercury, 31 May 1831; The Alfred, 3 Oct. 1831.

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102 Lopatin, Political unions, pp. 106–7, 118; Western Flying Post, 5 Dec.; Bridgwater magistrates to Melbourne, 5 Nov. 1831, with enclosures, TNA, HO 52/15, fos. 610–15.

103 Bath Herald, 2 June; Western Flying Post, 4 June; The Alfred, 11 June; Poor Man's Guardian, 3 Nov. 1832; Lopatin, Political unions, pp. 176–7.

104 On labouring involvement in south-eastern political unions, see Griffin, The rural war, pp. 309–11.

105 Western Flying Post, 4 June; The Alfred, 26 Mar. and 23 July 1832. For the activities at Chard, see various letters and enclosures, TNA, HO 52/19, fos. 322, 327–8, 341–7, 360–405.

106 Hampshire Advertiser, 19 Nov. 1831.

107 Berks Chronicle, 5 Mar. (Ramsbury) and 4 June (West Lavington); Hampshire Advertiser, 17 Dec. 1831 (Bishops Canning parish to Devizes), and 3 May (West Lavington to Devizes) and 31 May 1834 (Great Chiverall to Devizes). Market Lavington was also the scene of ‘tumult and riot’ over several nights in Feb. 1833, in all probability concerning labourers’ impoverishment: Information of Amram Edward Saunders, Market Lavington, 29 Feb. 1832, forwarded to the Home Office by the Market Lavington magistrates, TNA, HO 52/20, fo. 123.

108 Prison Register, 1827–38, DHC, NG/PR1/D2/2, pp. 110 and 148; Dorset County Chronicle, 1 Sept.; The Alfred, 7 Nov. and 5 Dec. 1831.

109 For the emergence of general unionism in the period, see Chase, Early trade unionism, pp. 112–21.

110 Felix Farley's Bristol Journal, 27 Oct.; J. Phillips, Montacute, to Melbourne, 22 Mar. 1832, with enclosure, TNA, HO 52/19, fos. 407–9.

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114 Viscount Ebrington, Castle Hill, to Melbourne, 23 Nov. and 5 Dec. 1833, TNA, HO 52/22, fos. 166–8 and 169–72.

115 Mayor of Plymouth to Melbourne, 20/22 Feb. 1834, TNA, HO 52/24, fos. 68–9.

116 Mayor of Exeter to Melbourne, 18, 22, and 23 Jan., with enclosures, and Tiverton town clerk to Melbourne, 28 Jan. 1834, TNA, HO 52/24, fos. 70–3, 77–8, 80–7 and 88–9; Western Flying Post, 20 and 27 Jan. 1834.

117 J. Phillips, Montacute to Under-Secretary Phillips, Home Office, 22 Jan., TNA, HO 52/25, fos. 132–3. By mid-February, the local press reported that the union was now dissolved thanks to the co-ordinated action of the magistrates and the masters: Western Flying Post, 10 Feb. 1834.

118 Messrs Hayward & Sons, West Chinook, to Melbourne, 13 July 1833, with enclosures, TNA, HO 40/31, fos. 165–8.

119 Informer G. M. Ball report (n.d.), TNA HO 64/15, fo. 106, cited in Wells, ‘Tolpuddle’, p. 122.

120 Note, Hobsbawm and Rudé, and hence subsequent retellings of Swing in Dorset, misidentified the events at Bere Regis and Winterbourne Kingtson, referencing Frampton's post hoc telling of Swing in his history of the Dorset yeomanry. A triangulation of events with other sources suggests the date should be 25 Nov. as opposed to the 22nd: Hobsbawm and Rudé, Captain Swing, p. 325; William Castleman, Wimborne, to John Sanderson, Uxbridge House, 25 Nov., DHC, D/ANG/B5/42; Wimborne Division Magistrates to Lord Melbourne, 25 Nov., TNA, HO 52/7, fos. 278–9; Frampton, Moreton, to Earl of Ilchester, 25 Nov. 1830, DHC, D/FSI, box 242, ‘Rural disorders’ file (not catalogued).

121 Account of the Dorset Yeomanry regiment by James Frampton from its reformation in 1830, DHC, D/FRA/X4; Wimbourne Division JPs, Wimbourne, to Melbourne, 25 Nov., TNA, HO 52/7, fos. 278–9; Frampton, Moreton, to earl of Ilchester, 25 Nov. 1830, DHC, D/FSI, box 242, ‘Rural disorders’ file (not catalogued).

122 Wells, ‘Tolpuddle’, p. 121; Loveless, Victims of Whiggery, p. 10; Frampton, Moreton, to Melbourne, 2 Apr. 1834, reproduced in Citrine, The martrys of Tolpuddle, p. 183.

123 Loveless, Victims of Whiggery, p. 5. On the reduction of wages post-Swing, see Griffin, The rural war, pp. 115, 299–300.

124 A flax-comber was also found guilty of firing a flax shop in Feb. 1833, the latest in a series of incendiary attacks against flax-working buildings in the town since the summer of 1830: Dorset County Chronicle, 28 Feb.; Morning Post, 15 Mar. 1833.

125 Information of John Cox, turnkey, 1 Mar. 1834, TNA, HO 52/24, fo. 57; Marlow, The Tolpuddle Martyrs, pp. 42–3; Wells, ‘Tolpuddle’, p. 122.

126 Times, 20 Mar. 1834; Loveless, Victims of Whiggery, p. 6; Wells, ‘Tolpuddle’, p. 123; Marlow, The Tolpuddle Martyrs, p. 283.

127 Frampton, Moreton, to the earl of Ilchester, n.d. (but Mar. 1834), DHC, D/FSI/box 242.

128 Frampton to Melbourne, 5 Mar. 1834, in Citrine, The martrys of Tolpuddle, pp. 175–6.

129 Loveless, Victims of Whiggery, pp. 7–8; Wells, ‘Tolpuddle’, p. 140; On the trade union reaction to the trial, see Marlow, The Tolpuddle Martyrs, ch. 9.

130 Wells, ‘Tolpuddle’, pp. 121–2.

131 Chase, Early trade unionism, esp. chs. 4 and 5; Wells, ‘Tolpuddle’.

132 Featherstone, D., Resistance, space and political identities: the making of counter-global networks (Chichester, 2009), pp. 73–4Google Scholar, 91–7.