First Idea - The Swing Letters

The first idea that came to my mind was to do something involving Captain Swing - A Luddite folk hero who sent threatening letters to land owners.

In the 1830's farmers began to use threshing machines. Threshing was a job generally done by labourers around winter time, so many lost their jobs at the worst time of the year when these machines were introduced, leading many to riot and dismantle the threshing machines. The riots were largely bloodless and sentences for rioters were quite lenient, until arsonists started joining in, often by burning ricks.

The name Captain Swing comes from threatening letters sent to land owners:

 

It's likely they never was a Captain Swing and he was in fact just a group of people, but I'd like to think of him as one person, purely for the narrative's sake. My main idea would be to draw Captain Swing writing some of these letters, perhaps with others egging him on.