There are plenty of earlier examples of riots and riotous behaviour in Britain's history. An interesting account I have been reading lately is in Terry Coleman's book The Railway Navvies (first published by Hutchinson, 1965).
The scene was the wave of railway construction in the mid 1840s. The pick, shovel, drilling and explosives work for the great cuttings, embankments and tunnels was undertaken by labourers - or navigators - who were poorly housed, often exploited and worked in dangerous conditions. Their fights and riotous assemblies were fuelled by alcohol and could involve thousands of men. The countryside was terrorised. Exemplary sentences were handed down by the bench.
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