![]() I disliked the Coiners and disliked even more the outsiders who wished to destroy their way of life. ![]() Sympathy because all my northern, anti-establishment chips on the shoulder set me firmly on their side. Disgust because the way the Coiners dealt with those who refused to take their side was to murder (brutally) and gang rape wives and daughters. The thoughts that stayed with me longest after I’d read the final page were disgust for the counterfitters, the Cragg Vale Coiners - and enormous sympathy for them. More than most books, this one reminded me that reading is personal partly because response is affected by the political and social attitudes one holds. ![]() The Gallows Pole is a fictionalised account of a group of eighteenth-century counterfitters and the men who tried to stop them. Attribution: contains Ordnance Survey data, Crown copywight and data licensed under the Creative Commons attribution-Share Alike 3.0. Above, a map of West Yorkshire, UK, with Calderdale, the setting of the story, highlighted. ![]()
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