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Showing posts with label croppers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label croppers. Show all posts
Thursday, 28 September 2017

28th September 1817: Viscount Lascelles writes to Lord Sidmouth about the plight of the Croppers

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My dear Lord. In the course of the last Session of [Parliament] your Lordship may recollect that I together with a Deputation from the Clo...
Saturday, 11 February 2017

11th February 1817: Leeds Croppers petition brought up in the House of Commons

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On Tuesday 11th February 1817, a petition from Croppers in Leeds about the use of cloth-dressing machinery was debated in the House of  Comm...
Wednesday, 30 November 2016

30th November 1816: Another correspondent writes to the Leeds Mercury in the debate about shearing frames vs hand-cropping

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MR PRINTER,—In your paper of the 23d inst. I observed a comparison between the dressing of cloth by manual labour and machinery . Now, thou...
Wednesday, 23 November 2016

23rd November 1816: Correspondents argue about shearing frames in the Leeds Mercury

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In addition to the above paper , on the general subject, the following observations on the use of Machinery in the Dressing of Woollen Clot...
Sunday, 30 October 2016

30th October 1816: Croppers lose wages case at Pontefract Sessions

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A court case regarding Croppers' wages that came before Pontefract Sessions is a good example of how the spectre of Luddism was invoked ...
Tuesday, 26 April 2016

26th April 1816: The Secretary of the Leeds Cloth Dressers' Union outlines their distress to the Leeds Mercury

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To the editor of the Leeds Mercury. Sir, Who is the true Friend of his Country? This Question strikes me more forcibly at a Time like th...
Saturday, 16 January 2016

16th January 1816: The Leeds Cloth Dressers Union case comes to court

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On Tuesday 16th January 1816, the case of the Union Officers arrested and charged with aiding and abetting an illegal combination (i.e. Tra...
Wednesday, 30 December 2015

30th December 1815: Leeds Cloth Dressers' Union Secretary writes a corrective letter to the Leeds Mercury

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Following the report of his arrest in the 23rd December 1815 edition of the Leeds Mercury, John Sunderland - the Secretary of the Cloth Dr...
Friday, 18 December 2015

18th December 1815: Cloth Dressers' Union Secretary arrested in Leeds

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In the evening of Monday 18th December 1815 John Sunderland, the secretary of the Cloth Dressers' Union (or 'Brief Institution')...
Tuesday, 10 April 2012

[After] 9th April 1812: Song titled “Forster’s Mill," Huddersfield vicinity

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Come all ye croppers stout and bold, Let your faith grow stronger still, Oh, the cropper lads in the county of York Broke the shears at F...
Sunday, 11 March 2012

11th March 1812: The Leeds Luddite James Shaw walks away free from York Lent Assizes

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The Lent Assizes at York had commenced on Saturday 7th March. On the following Wednesday, it was the turn of James Shaw, the Luddite capture...
Wednesday, 1 February 2012

February 1812: Song "The Cropper's Song", Huddersfield area

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The Cropper’s Song Come, cropper lads of high renown, Who love to drink good ale that’s brown, And strike each haughty tyrant down, With...
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Monday, 16 January 2012

16th January 1812: The first Yorkshire Luddite is committed for trial

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The day after he was arrested at the bridge near Sheepscar in Leeds, James Shaw was charged under the Black Act with "disguising his p...
Sunday, 15 January 2012

15th January 1812: Magistrates break up nocturnal croppers meeting near Leeds

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At 9 o'clock on the evening of Wednesday the 15th of January, Magistrates in Leeds received news they must have been dreading. An inform...

The historic context of West Yorkshire Luddism in 1812

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In 1812, the West Riding of Yorkshire was the centre of the woollen cloth industry in England. But it had not always been this way: for a lo...