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Showing posts with label framework-knitters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label framework-knitters. Show all posts
Friday, 23 February 2018

23rd February 1818: Leicester Framework-knitters meet to petition parliament about their distress

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The Nottingham Review of Friday 6th March 1818 carried the following article about framework-knitters in Leicester: A numerous meeting of ...
Tuesday, 20 February 2018

20th February 1818: The Nottingham Review writes on the plight of Leicester framework-knitters

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The Nottingham Review of Friday 20th February posted the following article about plight of framework-knitters in Leicester being championed ...
Wednesday, 11 October 2017

11th October 1817: A correspondent to the Nottingham Review blames Parish Officers for the poverty of Framework-knitters

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At a time (says a correspondent of the Nottingham Review ,) when the public mind is much exercised, on account of the lamentable, and much ...

11th October 1817: The Nottinghamshire Framework-knitters strike is reported to end in failure

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On Saturday 11th October 1817, the Leicester Chronicle republished a story from a recent Nottingham Review, that the Framework-knitters stri...
Monday, 11 September 2017

[11th] September 1817: Henry Enfield writes to the Home Office about striking Frameworkknitters in Nottinghamshire

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Nottingham 10r. September 1817. My Lord The Magistrates wish me to make a Communication to Your Lordship of the present State of this To...
Saturday, 2 September 2017

2nd September 1817: Nottingham Framework-knitters Handbill about low pay

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TO THE Philanthopic and Feeling PUBLIC, OF NOTTINGHAM, And its Vicinity, The distressed Part of the Framework-Knitters, UNDER...
Thursday, 30 March 2017

30th March 1817: Hoveringham Framework-knitters appeal to Hosiers to raise their wages

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AN ADDRESS Of the FRAMEWORK-KNITTERS in HOVERINGHAM, AND ITS VICINITY. TO THE GENTLEMAN HOSIERS. GENTLEMEN—To your humane Feeling...
Monday, 20 February 2017

20th February 1817: A leading Leicester framework-knitter writes to the Home Secretary

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Leicester Feby 20th 1817 My Lord We have inclosed for the serious consideration of your Lordships & the cabinet Ministers No.1 a cop...
Saturday, 24 December 2016

24th December 1816: An extraordinary letter is sent to the Home Secretary from an Overseer of the Poor in Derbyshire

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Melbourne near Derby Decr 24 1816 My Lord Permit me to lay before you a statement of the deplorable situation to which this ruined Pari...
Friday, 21 October 2016

21st October 1816: Handbill posted in Nottingham 'we will have Bread or Blood by God'

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Brother Townsmen. A set of Justases as robed us for years by bating plain Hose from 1s.6d to 9 and Silk Gloves from 1.2. to 6d. They are no...
Tuesday, 16 August 2016

16th August 1816: 'An appalling picture of distress' in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire

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The Nottingham Review of 16th August 1816 published the following sobering passage about the distresses being experienced amongst framework-...
Monday, 16 May 2016

16th May 1816: Bureaucrats in Hinckley, Leicestershire, write to the Home Secretary about destitute & unemployed framework-knitters

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My Lord, Impelled solely by Sense of Duty, we beg leave to state to your lordship the alarming situation of the Inhabitants of the Town of...
Friday, 13 May 2016

13th May 1816: An informer reports a meeting of framework-knitters in Leicester

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13th May 1816 I had been at the Prince Blucher ever since before two o'Clock. There was a man from Leicester and another from Derby. I...
Wednesday, 4 May 2016

4th May 1816: A meeting of nearly 1000 framework-knitters is dispersed by Cavalry in Derby

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The Leicester Chronicle of Saturday 4th May 1816 carried a story about a meeting of framework-knitters in Derby that had occurred at some po...
Sunday, 1 May 2016

May 1816: Overseers of the Poor in Hinckley express concerns about unemployment amongst Framework-knitters to the government

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[May 1816] My Lord, In consequence of the present indifferent and alarming state of the Stocking Manufactory there are many loose hands ...
Friday, 15 April 2016

15th April 1816: Resolutions of Leicester Framework-knitters meeting

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DISTRESS OF TRADE. At a Meeting of the FRAME-WORK KNITTERS of the Town and County of LEICESTER, held at the Bowling Green, Leicester, on ...
Sunday, 26 April 2015

26th April 1815: Suicide of a framework-knitter, William Wakefield of Old Radford

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On Wednesday 26th April, an unemployed framework-knitter called William Wakefield from Old Radford committed suicide by taking poison. He le...
Wednesday, 6 August 2014

6th August 1814: The Procurator Fiscal of Dumfries sends an intercepted letter to the Mayor of Nottingham

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Dumfries 6 August 1814 Sir A Correspondence having lately been discovered to have commenced here, betwixt the Journeymen Stocking makers...
Saturday, 5 July 2014

5th July 1814: The Town Clerk of Nottingham informs the Home Office about the arrest of FWK Union officers and seizure of books

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Nottm 5th July 1814. Dear Sir, I have the pleasure to inform you that for the Honour of the Police of this Town the Magistrates Mr Alder...
Monday, 16 June 2014

16th June 1814: A member of the Framework-knitters Union writes to a contact in Scotland

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Nottm June 16. 1814 Sir Having seen the letter you have sent to your Brother Timothy expressing the Disposition of the Trade of Dumfries...