Here's a few more great empowering moments in British history.
The Jarrow Crusade
The International Brigade
The Kinder Scout trespass
The Spithead mutiny
The Burston School strike
The WW1 unofficial Christmas truce
The peasant's revolt
The General Strike.

But perhaps Sam would prefer to remember the Cawnpore massacre, the Amritsa massacre, the massacre of the Scots after Culloden, the brutal suppression of the 1798 rebellion, the Irish potato famine, the Black Acts, the Transportation Acts, the Enclosure Acts, the destruction of the monasteries, the massacres of Wexford and Drogheda, the Peterloo massacre, The Durham lockout, the slave trade, the employment of children in the mills, mines and factories of the industrial revoluton, the broken, maimed and crippled survivors of Waterloo, the means test riots, the Highland clearances.

That's some empowering history you've got there Sam.