On Monday, the Quaker missionary Thomas Shillitoe continued his visits to the families of the Luddites executed at York in January, accompan...

Memorial placards for the 17 executed Luddites, left at the execution site on 19th January 2013 (image copyright Richard Holland) The s...

A contemporary illustration, from York Castle Prison, of an execution at the 'New Drop' after 1802. On Saturday 16th January 181...

On Saturday 9th January 1813, the day after George Mellor, William Thorpe & Thomas Smith had been executed, the trial commenced of sever...

By the evening of Wednesday 21st October 1812, Benjamin Walker, the cropper who had been arrested 4 days before , had reached his limit and ...

Time had run out for James Haigh . After being freed following the abandonment of his prosecution at York Summer Assizes in July, the magis...

Huddersfield 24th. September 1812. Copy of paper delivered to Mr. Hirst. Representation of Thomas Ewart & Robert Lumas. That they ...

On Friday 24th July, Judge Bayley sentenced the prisoners convicted at the York Summer Assizes. Patrick Doring , was found guilty of threa...

The Leeds Mercury of 25th July 1812, carried the details of the trial of Patrick Doring, who was accused of threatening the lives of Mary an...

Sir John Bayley c.1808 On Saturday 18th July 1812, the Summer Assizes commenced at York before Baron (Sir George) Wood & Sir John Ba...

On Tuesday 7th July 1812, Patrick Doring of Scholes, aka Dr. Patrick Bell, was arrested. He was accused of intimidating Mary & Joseph Cu...

Sir With the concurrence of My brother magistrates, Messrs G. Armitage & F. Scott, acting in this Neighbourhood, I have the honor to i...

By Thursday 30th April, the Huddersfield magistrate Joseph Radcliffe had had enough of the cropper James Haigh. Radcliffe had examined Haigh...

James Haigh had been apprehended by the Huddersfield Constable Thomas Atkinson that day before at Methley. On Friday 24th April 1812, he sto...

On Thursday 23rd April 1812, Thomas Atkinson had been given a warrant for the arrest of a man called James Haigh, a cropper from Dalton, nea...

Between 12 midnight and 1.00 a.m. on Wednesday 15th April, Joseph Culpin received a knock on the door of his house at Penistone Green. He an...

On Tuesday 14th April 1812, Richard Tatterson, the surgeon from Lepton near Huddersfield was again visited by the man with the wounded shoul...

Richard Tatterson was doctor who practised surgery at Lepton, four and a half miles from Huddersfield. At 4 p.m. on Sunday 12th April 1812, ...