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Showing posts with label delegates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label delegates. Show all posts
Saturday, 23 June 2012

23rd June 1812: Colonel Ralph Fletcher informs the Home Office about links between Huddersfield & Manchester

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Bolton 23 June 1812 Dear Sir The following Extract from B’s weekly report I think it proper to transmit “Subscriptions are set on foot ...
Tuesday, 5 June 2012

5th June 1812: Delegates from the North & Midlands meet in Lancashire Hill, Stockport

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On 18th June 1812, the Manchester Magistrate, William Robert Hay, passed to the Home Office a report from an informer called 'RW'. H...
Saturday, 26 May 2012

26th May 1812: Peace & Parliamentary Reform meeting at the Elephant, Tib Street, Manchester

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As noted previously by Colonel Fletcher 's spy, John Bent (aka 'B' ), the meetings of the delegates of various trades had now ...
Friday, 18 May 2012

18th May 1812: The Manchester spy, John Bent, files his latest report for Colonel Fletcher

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On Monday 18th May 1812, Colonel Fletcher 's spy 'B' (aka John Bent), finished another report for his master. On 12th May, Be...
Monday, 23 April 2012

23rd April 1812: The Manchester spy John Bent reports on riots, a new role and a delegate from Birmingham

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On Thursday 23d April 1812, the spy 'B' aka John Bent filed another report for Colonel Ralph Fletcher. On the 18th, he had receive...
Friday, 20 April 2012

20th April 1812: A young Mancunian man is 'twisted-in '

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On Monday 20th April 1812, a young man - whom we only know by the letters MI - met a man called Whittingham in Manchester. Whittingham told ...
Friday, 6 April 2012

6th April 1812: Manchester Executive Committee cancel plans for factory attacks on 9th April

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On Monday 6th April 1812, the 'Manchester Executive Committee' met at the Prince Regent's Arms on Ancoats Lane in Manchester to ...
Thursday, 5 April 2012

5th April 1812: Delegates from many North West towns meet at the Kings Arms in Salford

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The Kings Arms, Salford in the 1970s. Image copyright Salford Pubs of the 70s on Flickr. At 6 p.m. on Sunday 5th April, an important mee...
Saturday, 24 March 2012

24th March 1812: Duke of Newcastle writes to the Home Office about a Nottingham Luddite delegate to Manchester

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Clumber March 24 1812 Sir It really appears as if the rioters are beginning to think that their wisest way will now be to remain quiet...
Friday, 24 February 2012

24th February 1812: Bolton weavers meet at the Gibraltar Rock & swear illegal oaths

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The Gibraltar Rock, as captured by Google Street View in 2009 Somewhere between the end of February and the beginning of March 1812, a s...
Wednesday, 28 December 2011

28th December 1811: Nottingham delegates at secret meetings in Stockport

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On Saturday 28th December, Viscount Warren-Bulkeley wrote to the Home Secretary, Richard Ryder. He had received intelligence from an agent ...