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A Servant of the Governor

£7.95

A historical novel based on the actual events surrounding the Swing Riots in Hampshire in 1830. Two brothers, who are agricultural workers, protest against the use of labour-displacing threshing machines, challenging injustice in defence of their rights. But they are sentenced to transportation to Australia for life as a result of their actions.

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Nofel hanesyddol wedi’i seilio ar ddigwyddiadau go iawn yn ystod cyfnod y Terfysgoedd Swing yn swydd Hampshire yn 1830. Portreadir dau frawd, sy’n weithwyr amaethyddol, yn protestio yn erbyn y defnydd o beiriannau dyrnu sy’n peri colli swyddi i lafurwyr cyffredin. O ganlyniad i’w gweithredoedd yn herio anghyfiawnder, caiff y brodyr eu halltudio.
A historical novel based on the actual events surrounding the Swing Riots in Hampshire in 1830. Two brothers, who are agricultural workers, protest against the use of labour-displacing threshing machines, challenging injustice in defence of their rights. But they are sentenced to transportation to Australia for life as a result of their actions.

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English