The Rebecca Riots in west Wales began in the summer of 1839. They ceased as suddenly as they had started, and for three and a half years the countryside was undisturbed. Then, in the winter of 1842, they broke out again with greater violence. By day the countryside seemed quiet, but at night fantastically disguised horsemen, many dressed as women, careered along highways and through narrow lanes on their mysterious errands. The movement has been unusually been represented as the uprising of an oppressed peasantry, particularly against the burden of the toll-gates. Its causes, however, were far more deep-seated than that.
- ISBN13 9780708323960
- Publish Date 31 March 2011 (first published 30 April 1998)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint University of Wales Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 256
- Language English