“We raise the watch-word liberty;
We will, we will, we will be free!”

The Tolpuddle Martyrs, a group of Dorset rural labourers who were arrested for swearing a secret oath as members of a friendly society, were sentenced to penal transportation to Australia 1834.

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“We raise the watch-word liberty;
We will, we will, we will be free!”

The Tolpuddle Martyrs, a group of Dorset rural labourers who were arrested for swearing a secret oath as members of a friendly society, were sentenced to penal transportation to Australia 1834.

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Four of the six so-called Tolpuddle Martyrs from Dorset, sentenced in 1834 to transportation to Australia for forming a trade union. Illustration from Cleave's Penny Gazette, 1838

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Beautiful work created by Dorsetshire schoolchildren- who have worked with me over past week creating art inspired by Martyrs- the work will inspire me to create 6 new commissions for

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