Context is all important when one reads the account below of the execution of the 'Luddite burglars' James Tomlinson and Perceval C...

 The Nottingham Review of 27th March 1812 had extensive coverage of the trial of the Derbyshire 'Luddite burglars' whose trial took ...

On Friday 31st January, James Tomlinson, aka Fruz, a framework-knitter from Belton was committed to Derby Gaol, charged with having taken pa...