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Friday, 22 July 2016

22nd July 1816: Hinckley Magistrates appeal again to the Home Secretary for help

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[Sent to the Home Office on 22nd July 1816] To the Right Honble Viscount Sidmouth His Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Home – Departme...
Sunday, 12 June 2016

12th June 1816: Threatening letter to Needham Bray & Co from 'Edward Ludd', Hinckley, Leicestershire

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To Needham and Bray & Co I learn you hare about to Bate your hands of their Prizes this week and by that you hare guilty of death—and...
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...
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 ...
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