Acts of Parliament passed by the Tory government of William Pitt the Younger in response to its fear of unrest or revolution among the working classes. They banned workers from combining to form trade unions and prevented them from striking, calling for shorter hours or increased pay.
English Benedictine monk, venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church.
Protestant priest who became a martyr, after his execution in 1555 as a result of the Marian Persecutions during the reign of Queen Mary I.
Supporter of Charles I and a Royalist commander during the English Civil War.
Supposed plot to kill Queen Elizabeth I and reintroduce Catholicism to England.
Eldest illegitimate daughter of Sir Thomas Wentworth of Bretton Hall near Wakefield in Yorkshire.
Former royal castle built in the 1220s by Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester, (1170–1232), on his return from the Fifth Crusade.
Landowner who lived at Hulton Hall in Lancashire, notorious for his part in the Peterloo Massacre.
Three men executed for the murder of a police officer in Manchester, England, in 1867.
Riot that took place on 28 January 1881 against the background of an acrimonious strike by 50,000 miners from pits on the Lancashire coalfield, characterised by mobs of miners picketing working pits.