Showing posts with label # The Great Meeting on Mynydd Sylen / Y Cyfarfod Mawr ar Fynydd Sylen # Rebecca Riots # Welsh history. Show all posts
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Friday, 25 August 2017

The Great Meeting on Mynydd Sylen / Y Cyfarfod Mawr ar Fynydd Sylen :25/08/1843

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In 1843 the whole of west Wales was gripped in the civil disturbances known as the ‘Rebecca Riots’. Aimed mainly at the unfair tolls that...