#OtD 13 May 1839 a toll gate in Wales was attacked by a large group of men disguised as women, the first of nearly 300 attacks known as The Rebecca Riots. The attacks were by tenant farmers protesting fees to use roads and general economic conditions https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/13670/Rebecca-and-her-daughters
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people keep claiming this was as a disguise, have people never seen welsh men on a stag do, it's never just a disguise
