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Showing posts with label leeds mercury. Show all posts
Showing posts with label leeds mercury. Show all posts
Wednesday, 30 November 2016

30th November 1816: Another correspondent writes to the Leeds Mercury in the debate about shearing frames vs hand-cropping

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MR PRINTER,—In your paper of the 23d inst. I observed a comparison between the dressing of cloth by manual labour and machinery . Now, thou...
Wednesday, 23 November 2016

23rd November 1816: Correspondents argue about shearing frames in the Leeds Mercury

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In addition to the above paper , on the general subject, the following observations on the use of Machinery in the Dressing of Woollen Clot...

23rd November 1816: 'A Manufacturer' replies to 'Observator' in the argument about technology in the Leeds Mercury

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MR. EDITOR,—I would not have troubled you with this, had I not felt much disappointment, on perusing your paper of Saturday last, to find b...
Wednesday, 16 November 2016

16th October 1816: 'Investigator' writes to the Leeds Mercury in defence of Machinery

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Mr. EDITOR—I do not all agree with "Observator," in your last week’s Mercury , in the recommendation of a Tax on Machinery, neith...
Wednesday, 9 November 2016

9th November 1816: 'Observator' writes to the Leeds Mercury advocating the taxation of machinery

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To the EDITOR of the LEEDS MERCURY. SIR—I rely upon your well-known for the insertion in your widely extended paper of the following rem...
Sunday, 25 September 2016

25th September 1816: Large demonstrations of unemployed men occur in Leeds

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On Wednesday 25th and Friday 27th September 1816, large demonstrations took place in Leeds, involving hundreds of unemployed men. The prote...
Wednesday, 13 July 2016

13th July 1816: Report on the weather in the Leeds Mercury

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The Weather .—The oldest man living does not recollect such unseasonable weather as we have lately experienced. But this is the case not on...
Tuesday, 26 April 2016

26th April 1816: The Secretary of the Leeds Cloth Dressers' Union outlines their distress to the Leeds Mercury

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To the editor of the Leeds Mercury. Sir, Who is the true Friend of his Country? This Question strikes me more forcibly at a Time like th...
Thursday, 25 February 2016

25th February 1816: Four shearing frames broken by Luddites at Quarmby, their final action in the West Riding

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At 1.00 a.m. on Sunday 25th February 1816, the final Luddite action in the West Riding took place - just after the fourth anniversary of the...
Wednesday, 17 February 2016

17th February 1816: Weather report from Bradford

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The Leeds Mercury of Saturday 17th February 1816 carried a local report about the increasingly cold weather being experienced in the 'ye...
Saturday, 16 January 2016

16th January 1816: The Leeds Cloth Dressers Union case comes to court

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On Tuesday 16th January 1816, the case of the Union Officers arrested and charged with aiding and abetting an illegal combination (i.e. Tra...
Wednesday, 30 December 2015

30th December 1815: Leeds Cloth Dressers' Union Secretary writes a corrective letter to the Leeds Mercury

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Following the report of his arrest in the 23rd December 1815 edition of the Leeds Mercury, John Sunderland - the Secretary of the Cloth Dr...
Wednesday, 23 December 2015

23rd December 1815: 'The Thrashing Machine: A Tale'

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THE THRASHING MACHINE . A TALE. Many ages ago, the inhabitants of a large, populous, and opulent island were divided into sects or cast...
Friday, 18 December 2015

18th December 1815: Cloth Dressers' Union Secretary arrested in Leeds

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In the evening of Monday 18th December 1815 John Sunderland, the secretary of the Cloth Dressers' Union (or 'Brief Institution')...
Wednesday, 26 August 2015

26th August 1815: The Leeds Mercury publishes a final editorial on the Charles Sutton affair

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In the last Intelligencer a boast is put forth by the new Editor that he contributed to bring down upon a rival publication at Nottingham, ...
Wednesday, 19 August 2015

19th August 1815: The Leeds Mercury responds to the Leeds Intelligencer's editorial about the Charles Sutton trial

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We [illegible] a moment from more agreeable and more [illegible] pursuits, to notice a [most] violent [and impudent] attack made upon the pa...
Friday, 14 August 2015

14th August 1815: The Leeds Intelligencer publishes another outspoken editorial about Charles Sutton

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We have promised to pay a little occasional attention to the Nottingham Review , and to shame, if anything can shame, the other paper publis...
Friday, 10 April 2015

How the press reported the news of the Tambora eruption

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In the days before the invention and widespread use of the electric telegraph, international news travelled very slowly indeed - basically, ...
Wednesday, 5 November 2014

5th November 1814: Joanna Southcott writes to the press to decry a hoax letter

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JOANNA SOUTHCOTT. The following letter appeared in the Observer of Sunday last, and made a considerable impression on the believers of ...
Friday, 24 October 2014

24th October 1814: 19 year-old worker killed by machinery at Carr's gig-mill, Armley

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The Saturday 29th October edition of the Leeds Mercury carried a report about an accident at a gig mill at Armley, near Leeds: On Monday ...