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Tolpuddle - an historical account through the eyes of George Loveless.  Contemporary accounts, letters, documents, etc., compiled by Graham Padden, TUC, 1984, updated 1997. 

The Tolpuddle Martyrs by Joyce Marlow, Grafton Books, 1985.  

The Book of the Martyrs of Tolpuddle 1834-1934, TUC, 1934 & 2000

The Victims of Whiggery, pamphlet by George Loveless, London, 1837, now republished by TUC as The Martyr's Account.

Captain Swing  by E Hobsbawm and G Rudé, Lawrence and Wishart, 1969.  

Sharpen the Sickle - the history of the farmworkers’ union, by R Groves, Merlin Press, 1981.

The Fatal Shore - a history of the transportation of convicts to Australia, 1787-1868, by Robert Hughes, Collins Harvall, 1987.

The Early Trade Unions - a collection of contemporary documents, edited by S Lewenhak, Jackdaw, 1996.

 The Painful Plough – a portrait of the agricultural labourer in the nineteenth century from folk songs and ballads and contemporary accounts, selected and edited by Roy Palmer, Cambridge University Press,1972  

In the British Library:

The Church Shown Up, pamphlet by George Loveless, London, 1838  

A Narrative of the Sufferings of J Loveless, J Brine, T & J Standfield, pamphlet, 1838

The Frampton Papers, Ms 41567L

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