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Biography of Dic Penderyn, an innocent man hanged after the 1831 Merthyr Rising workers' revolt, and held as the first martyr of the labor movement in Britain. This book examines Richard Lewis (aka Dic Penderyn)'s life and background as far as we can now know it, the causes and events of the Merthyr Rising, Dic's trial and his legacy.

Produktbeschreibung
Biography of Dic Penderyn, an innocent man hanged after the 1831 Merthyr Rising workers' revolt, and held as the first martyr of the labor movement in Britain. This book examines Richard Lewis (aka Dic Penderyn)'s life and background as far as we can now know it, the causes and events of the Merthyr Rising, Dic's trial and his legacy.
Autorenporträt
Born to a Welsh family in London, Sally Roberts Jones moved back to Wales to go to university. She became a freelance writer and lecturer and is the author of four collections of poetry and numerous magazine and journal articles on history and literature. She is the Chair of the Port Talbot Historical Society.