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UK: Early cross-dress rioters unveiled

Started by Natasha, January 01, 2008, 10:15:33 PM

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UK: Early cross-dress rioters unveiled

ICWales
by Darren Devine, Western Mail
01/01/2008

Using tactics similar to those deployed 20 years later in the Rebecca riots – when disgruntled Welshmen famously disguised themselves in women's clothing – Eirian Jones's book The War of the Little Englishman tells how locals in Llanrhystud, Ceredigion, drove out a Lincolnshire-born aristocrat.



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