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    The Preston strike of 18531854 was a strike of English weavers which took place between 1853 and 1854 in Preston, Lancashire. The strike lasted seven...
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  • Mortimer Grimshaw (category Date of birth unknown)
    political activist, strike leader and cotton weaver. He briefly attained national fame in the 1850s due to his part in the Preston strike of 1853–54. A large...
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    The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace...
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    and Elizabeth Fry. Clay was a figure of the Preston strike of 18531854. His opinion of the general behaviour of the strikers was high, as expressed to...
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    (1849–1933), and Preston Smith Brooks (1854–1928). Martha outlived her husband. He was a member of the South Carolina state House of Representatives in...
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    ; King, J. E. (1981). Ten Per Cent and No Surrender: The Preston Strike, 1853-1854. Cambridge University Press. p. 79. ISBN 978-0-521-23620-1. Society...
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    Illustrations of Lancaster, 1842. A Tour in the United States and Canada, 1861. An account of the Preston strike of 18531854; and some pamphlets. List of mills...
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    novel published in 1854–55 by English author Elizabeth Gaskell. With Wives and Daughters (1865) and Cranford (1853), it is one of her best-known novels...
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  • Preston Dock (also known as Preston Docklands) is a former maritime dock located on the northern bank of the River Ribble approximately 2.5 km (1.6 mi)...
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    Stockholm. 1993. ISBN 91-22-01565-5 Preston, John Antony, Send a Gunboat! The Victorian Navy and Supremacy at Sea, 1854–1904. Conway Maritime, London. 2007...
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