Table of Contents

Foreword Author's Note Introduction Background Selborne, Saturday 20th to Monday 22nd November, 1830 Headley and Kingsley, Tuesday 23rd November 1830 Alton and Wyck, Wednesday 24th November The Round Up, Thursday 25th November to Wednesday 15th December The Trials, Monday 20th to Thursday 30th December Reaction to Sentences Transportation and After In Conclusion Labour Rates in 1830 Personalities The Rioters' Walk - a guided walk from Selborne to Headley and back Calendar of Events Acknowledgements Commemorations Dramatisations

About the Author

John Owen Smith was born in 1942 and trained as a Chemical Engineer at London University, but spent most of his working life designing commercial Information Systems for the paper-making industry. Following redundancy, he 'fell' into researching and recording the local history of east Hampshire, where he now lives. His output includes historical community plays, lectures, articles and books.

Reviews

S.Z. - Local History Magazine, No.41, November/December 1993 The dramatic events of these two days are ably recounted as the author pieces together all the known facts from sometimes contradictory reports and from the legends which have grown up around the names and deeds of those involved in the action. Joe Fyles - Country.Side, April/May 1993 - A Darker Side to Selborne We need more studies like John Owen Smith's - adding details to the national picture and suggesting as many questions as it solves. Why was the mob keener to destroy workhouses than threshing machines? What was the role of the farmers who were often present and clearly had a vested interest in the tithe reduction? Several dozen more such studies would produce a welcome new national picture. Anthony Rosen - Farming News, October 1993 'One Monday in November' is a well-written and detailed chronicle of the riots in 1830 instigated by farmers, the main aim of the riots being to reduce tithes so that a living wage might be paid to the labourers. What chance is there today of the farmworkers' union getting together with the NFU to put their joint representations to government? Lyn Colbeck - Folk on Tap, Issue 57, Autumn 1993 'One Monday in November' is the story of the Selborne and Headley Workhouse Riots of 1830. Written by John Owen Smith, this book is not only tremendously well-written, but beautifully produced with superb photographs and illustrations. A version of this story is to be performed as a play by local people under the title 'This Bloody Crew' in October. L.C. Giles - Vice-Chairman, Bramshott and Liphook Preservation Society, 1993 Jo Smith's book is a real contribution to our history. It tells the story of a few tragic days in East Hampshire in 1830, when hungry men, bewildered by falling wages and rising prices, blundered into mob action. They wrecked two buildings, in a period when property was sacred -- and retribution was savage -- but strangely selective. 1830 -- fifteen years since Waterloo and the defeat of revolutionary France, but years of depression and city riots! Now it was the turn of the countryside, where the hardships of the poor had been increased by low wages, enclosures and new machinery. In August the farm-workers of Kent suddenly broke out in riot and destruction. Mobs roamed the countryside carrying banners inscribed 'Bread or Blood,' demanding money, firing ricks and destroying machines. Could England too be drifting towards revolution? The flame spread rapidly westwards. Our turn came in late November. The disturbances in Selborne and Headley were closely connected -- in time, targets and cast of characters. In Liphook itself the mob was dispersed by firm action -- but Liphook men almost certainly joined in the violence at Headley. In Jo Smith's book the events in the three villages are at last told as one coherent story. I am particularly happy to have the chance to introduce the book to the public. A few years ago I researched and wrote a brief account of the riots, so I am probably one of the few people who can appreciate fully how hard Mr Smith must have worked, how thorough and widespread his investigations have been, unearthing ten times more information than I found. He gives us the economic and social background and then recounts the facts, with clarity, humour and impartiality. His sympathies are clear, but he has not made all his rich men villains or all his poor men saints; he has told it "as it happened". Selborne, Headley and Liphook are much in his debt.