Samuel Plimsoll was an advocate for better working conditions for sailors, and for a lot of other things. A lot of contemporary accounts refer to him as an agitator. Research: <ul> <li>Bibby, Miriam. &ldquo;Samuel Plimsoll and the Plimsoll Line.&rdquo; Historic UK. June 14, 2024. https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Samuel-Plimsoll-Line/</li> <li>Britannica Editors. "Samuel Plimsoll".&nbsp;Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 May. 2026, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Plimsoll</li> <li>&ldquo;Death of Mr. Samuel Plimsoll.&rdquo; The Lichfield Mercury. June 4, 1898. https://www.newspapers.com/image/797510210/?match=1&terms=%22samuel%20plimsoll%22</li> <li>&ldquo;Friends of Humanity.&rdquo; Democrat and Chronicle. Apr 27, 1913. https://www.newspapers.com/image/135735684/?match=1&terms=%22samuel%20plimsoll%22</li> <li>Glover, William. &ldquo;Samuel Plimsoll and the 1880 Carriage of Grain Legislation.&rdquo; The Northern Mariner / Le marin du nord, XXX, No. 4 (Winter 2020), 419-448. https://www.cnrs-scrn.org/northern_mariner/vol30/tnm_30_419-448.pdf</li> <li>&ldquo;Jack Tar&rsquo;s Friend.&rdquo; The Atchison Daily Globe. July 17, 1896. https://www.newspapers.com/image/479999267/?match=4&terms=%22samuel%20plimsoll%22</li> <li>Japp, Alexander H.&nbsp;&ldquo;Good men and true : biographies of workers in the fields of beneficence and benevolence.&rdquo; Philadelphia. Gebbie. 1890. Accessed online: https://archive.org/details/goodmentrue0000unse/page/10/mode/2up</li> <li>Jones, Nicolette. &ldquo;The Plimsoll Sensation.&rdquo; London. Little, Brown. 2006.</li> <li>Langenberg, William H. &ldquo;The Plimsoll Mark.&rdquo; U.S. Naval Institute. Naval History. June 1992. https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/1992/june/plimsoll-mark</li> <li>&ldquo;Lundhill Colliery Explosion.&rdquo; Northern Mine Research Society. https://nmrs.org.uk/mines-map/accidents-disasters/yorkshire/lundhill-colliery-explosion-barnsley-1857/</li> <li>&ldquo;The Name of Samuel Plimsoll &hellip; &ldquo; Birmingham Gazette. June 4, 1898. https://www.newspapers.com/image/815489724/?match=1&terms=%22samuel%20plimsoll%22</li> <li>&ldquo;People's College Sheffield (1842 - 1878).&rdquo; University of Sheffield. https://archives.shef.ac.uk/agents/corporate_entities/212</li> <li>Plimsoll, Samuel. &ldquo;Our Seamen: An Appeal.&rdquo; London. Virtue. 1873. Accessed online: https://archive.org/details/b20406691/page/n15/mode/2up</li> <li>Robertson, Jen. &ldquo;It's Plimsoll Day! (and we're talking about ships, not shoes).&rdquo; National Museums Liverpool. https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/its-plimsoll-day-and-were-talking-about-ships-not-shoes</li> </ul>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

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