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Showing posts with label ludd. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ludd. Show all posts
Tuesday, 30 July 2019

30th July 1819: The trial of Adam Wagstaff at Nottingham Summer Assizes for sending a threatening letter in the name of 'Genrall Ludd'

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On Friday 30th July 1819, a 27 year old framework-knitter, Adam Wagstaff, stood trial at Nottingham Summer Assizes, accused of sending a th...
Tuesday, 12 March 2019

12th March 1819: Threatening letter from Genrall Lud to Richard Dennis

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Richad Denniss If you keep that Rouge in you house Ned shall viset you and we shall be acpt too give you A little could led and you catt...
Friday, 9 February 2018

9th February 1818: Jeffrey Lockett tells the Home Office Francis Ward is 'Ned Lud'

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Derby Feby 9th: 1818 Dear Sir I understand from Birkin, that S. Haynes has made a long Affidavit, in which he has brought Oliver & B...
Tuesday, 24 January 2017

24th January 1817: A Leicestershire magistrate writes to an MP about a 5 year old Luddite case

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Whitwich Jany 24th 1817 Sir/ the appearance of Troublesom Times calls every Loyal Subject to be alert in order to Preserve the Publick Pea...
Saturday, 24 December 2016

24th December 1816: 'Song for the Luddites' by Lord Byron

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On Tuesday 24th December 1816, Lord Byron was in Venice, Italy. In a long letter to his friend, the Irish poet Thomas Moore (which can be ...
Thursday, 22 December 2016

22nd December 1816: The death of John Blackner - a 'General Ludd'?

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A mezzotint of John Blackner, after an original by R Bonington. On Sunday 22nd December the Nottingham Review journalist & historian...
Friday, 11 November 2016

11th November 1816: 'The Secretary' of the 'Black Committee' of Luddites writes to the Editor of the Stamford Mercury

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Head Quarters Nottingham Nov 11—1816 You have in several of your latest mercurys laid before the public several diabolical accounts of the...
Wednesday, 29 June 2016

29th June 1816: Mass Luddite attack on Heathcoat & Boden's factory at Loughborough

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The former factory that belonged to Heathcoat & Boden, in an image from the 20th Century. The building has since been demolished, and ...
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, 1 February 2016

1st February 1816: Charles Sutton's final hearing at the Court of King's Bench

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On Thursday 1st February 1816 & three months after Charles Sutton's application to have the guilty verdict against him set aside ha...
Saturday, 7 November 2015

7th November 1815: Charles Sutton appeals to the Court of King's Bench

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Almost four months after his trial for political libel and guilty verdict at Nottingham Assizes, Charles Sutton and his legal team had ap...
Wednesday, 22 July 2015

22nd July 1815: The trial of Charles Sutton, proprietor of the Nottingham Review, for political libel

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On Saturday 22nd July 1815, the proprietor of the Nottingham Review, Charles Sutton , stood trial at Nottingham Summer Assizes for political...