In the days following Daniel Diggle's execution , several regional newspapers reported that his mother has died two days later, on Frida...

22d Novr 1816 I was at Towle’s Funeral yesterday—A Schoolmaster I was told gave out the Hymns that were sung from his house to and at the...

On Thursday 21st November 1816, James Towle was buried in Basford, with thousands of people being present. The funeral was covered in seve...

Mr  We want som Bol Cartig an Sum Harms, You May expect us very soon Ned Lud Basford Oct 17 – 1814 Directed thus Mr Bare Depot Derby...

On Sunday 4th September, just before midnight on the 5th, around 20 Luddites undertook a series of raids in both Old and New Basford in Nott...

On Tuesday night, the 10th March 1812, Luddites stole a narrow stocking frame from a house on the Parsons Flat at Basford, near Nottingham. ...

On Friday 15th February, John Slaney, a framework-knitter from Basford was committed to Nottingham Gaol. He was charged with having attempte...

On Friday 7th February, the authorities committed 2 more men to the County Gaol for frame-breaking. John Osborne , of Eastwood, was commit...

In somewhat of a last hurrah for this phase of Midlands Luddism, several villages in 2 counties were attacked in the same night. In Derbys...

On Monday evening the 27th January, Luddites broke three stocking frames frames at Basford, and burned the woodwork from the frames in an ad...

In Basford on the night of Sunday 26th January, a Hosiery firm - Messrs Haddens - had arranged with the authorities for 2 soldiers from the ...

To the Editor of The Times Sir Conceiving it a matter of some importance that the Public should be better acquainted with the nature of ...

County Hall Nottingham 11th of Jany 1812 Sir The destruction of Stocking frames, and other violations of the law, still continue in th...

On Wednesday 8th January, two men were committed to Nottingham Gaol charged with machine-breaking. William Carnell and Joseph Maples were ch...

The new year was seeing an increasing urgency to the destruction of stocking frames by Luddites. On the afternoon of Saturday 4th January at...

Large numbers of stocking frames had been broken at Basford over the past few months, and the new year was to be no exception. On the Friday...

A small rick of hay belonging to a farmer was set alight, near to Basford paper mill.

On the evening of Thursday 12th December, two stacks - one of hay & one of seeds - belonging to a Mr Pepper, a Miller, were set on fire ...

Little more than a day after the meeting of the manufacturers, Luddites struck in Nottingham itself, at a workshop in Tyler Street 'whic...

The framebreaking continued for another night. This time 1 frame was broken at New Basford, 2 at Bobbers Mill, 1 at Old Radford & 1 at N...