The festival celebrates trade unionism and remembers the sacrifices made by six farm workers from the village back in 1834. Credit: ITV Westcountry Today is the final day of the Tolpuddle Martyrs ...

The festival celebrates trade unionism and remembers the sacrifices made by six farm workers from the village back in 1834. Credit: ITV Westcountry Today is the final day of the Tolpuddle Martyrs ...

The event marks the events in 1834 when six farm labourers from Tolpuddle were arrested for ... Festival organiser and South West TUC regional secretary, Nigel Costley, said: "It's arguably ...

The festival celebrates the story of six farm workers who formed ... Nigel Costley, South West TUC regional secretary, said the annual Tolpuddle Martyrs' Festival was always popular but the ...

The Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival, in Dorset, celebrates six farm workers who started the first ... and community-led food systems in the South West. "We want to get the unions, the environmentalists ...

The festival celebrates the story of six farm workers who formed the first trade union in 1834. The six Tolpuddle Martyrs ... Nigel Costley, South West TUC regional secretary, said the annual ...

In 1834 six farm workers set up a "friendly society" in the village of Tolpuddle in a protest over poor pay. The men were put on trial and sent to penal colonies in New South Wales, Australia, but ...

An immersive play detailing the famous story and struggles of six local farm labourers to earn a living ... a play based on the lives of the Tolpuddle Martyrs by Miles Malleson and HA Brooks.

A new plaque to mark the arrival of the Tolpuddle Martyrs in Plymouth is being ... and deputy leader Pete Smith will be joined by South West trade unionists and Frances O’Grady, General ...