The Rebecca riots saw Welsh farmers disguised as women destroy tollgates as a way of challenging what they believed was an oppressive taxation system.
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Matthew Tomlinson deplored the execution of a naval surgeon for sodomy, writing that the death penalty was cruel and unfair.
What started as an experiment in 1964 has become the UK’s most successful documentary franchise.
Some houses are like a time capsule of social history that can tell us how living standards, and fashions, have changed over the years.
