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Title: UK: Early cross-dress rioters unveiled
Post by: Natasha on January 01, 2008, 10:15:33 PM
UK: Early cross-dress rioters unveiled

ICWales (http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/01/01/early-cross-dress-rioters-unveiled-91466-20301484/)
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.