At 8.00 p.m. on Tuesday 2nd March 1813, seven men entered the house of Philip Bury, of Tong, near Middleton in Lancashire. Their heads were ...

In the evening of Sunday 29th November 1812, a series of robberies were committed in the area of Deighton & Fartown, near Huddersfield. ...

At 8.30 p.m. on Sunday 11th October, 3 men entered the home of John Briggs, the miller at Balm Mill near Cleckheaton and demanded his gun. B...

In the evening of Wednesday 7th October 1812, a number of burglaries took place around Halifax in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Fifteen ar...

Between 2 and 3 a.m. on Monday 5th October 1812, the home of a clothier, Benjamin Strickland, was raided by several armed Luddites. The fi...

At 9.00 p.m. on Monday 28th September 1812 James Bottomley, a weaver, came to his door after being summoned to find 6 men confronting him. T...

At 11.00 p.m. on Sunday 13th September, a 7 armed men broke into the house of a William Barker, a collector of Taxes, at Sowerby. They annou...

My Lord On the 19th Ulto I took the liberty of addressing a Letter from Leeds to Mr. Litchfield (Solicitor to the Treasury) on the subject...

The Morning Chronicle of 11th September 1812 carried a report of arms raids that had taken place in the evening of Monday 7th September, fol...

In the evening of Thursday 3rd September 1812, the home of a man called Mr. Beeston at Greenroyd was raided by between 12-15 Luddites in sea...

Between 11.00 p.m. and midnight in the evening of Monday 31st August, Luddites launched raids at Brighouse in the West Riding. At Thornhil...

In the night of Saturday 29th August 1812, the house of a man called Haigh at Skircoat, near Halifax was visited by a group of Luddites who ...

In the early hours of Saturday 22nd August 1812, at least 40 armed men arrived at the house of Edward Hepworth, a farmer from Sheepridge. He...

My Lord Not returning from attending at York as a grand jury man untill the last evening, when no post goes out for London, I could not ea...

Somewhere between the hours of 12.00 & 1.00 a.m. on Sunday 2nd August, the home of Edward Wright of Armley, near Leeds, was raided by Lu...

In the early hours of Sunday 26th July 1812, a group of 30 Luddites conducted an audacious arms raid in Elland. Robert Burley lives near to ...

The Leeds Mercury of 25th July 1812, carried the details of the trial of William Sykes, who was accused of raiding for arms in Meltham on 9t...

To the Editor of the Leeds Intelligencer. SIR—Notwithstanding the very gentle manner in which the Editor of a certain provincial publicati...

Hemsworth Nr. Pontefract July 18th 1812 My Lord, I have the honour to send herewith 8 depositions as to the stealing of Firearms which...

The former Black Bull Inn, Towngate, Clifton, today (as seen on Google Street View) In the early hours of Tuesday 14th July 1812, a group...