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Changing definitions of crime exemplified in the treatment of the Tolpuddle Martyrs

by David M. Holbrook

Changing definitions of crime exemplified in the treatment of the Tolpuddle Martyrs

by David M. Holbrook

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The topic can be seen as ‘quaint’ by students (not helped by the comic aspects of the name Tolpuddle with younger age groups) and conjures up images of rustic caricatures of people in smocks chewing chaffs of wheat. Yet Tolpuddle is an example of important developments in 19th century crime and punishment. 


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