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Showing posts with label meetings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label meetings. Show all posts
Sunday, 9 April 2017

9th April 1817: Lord Middleton urges Nottinghamshire Hosiers to 'conciliate their workmen', quoting the Luddite Thomas Savage

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COUNTY MEETING, AT MANSFIELD. A Correspondent has transmitted us some particulars of the Meeting held at Mansfield, which we are reques...
Sunday, 6 November 2016

6th November 1816: Meeting of Trades Deputies in London calls for suppression of machinery or new taxes against it

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London, Nov. 12, 1816. Gentlemen, AT a meeting of Deputies from different Trades throughout the Metropolis and its environs, held at Hol...
Wednesday, 3 August 2016

3rd August 1816: Details of a Luddite-like plot to destroy press-nail machinery in Birmingham is sent to the Home Office

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August 3rd. 1816 May it Please your Lordship in Consequence of the Nail Ironmongers again reducing their Workmen's Wages, and so man...
Friday, 22 July 2016

22nd July 1816: Public Meeting in Ely expresses alarm about the fate of transported prisoners

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AT a MEETING of the INHABITANTS of the TOWN of ELY, held at the Club Inn, in Ely, on Monday the 22d day of July, 1816, (t he Magistrates ha...
Monday, 4 July 2016

4th July 1816: The Leicestershire MP, George Legh Keck, is concerned about nocturnal meetings

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Stoughton Grange My Lord, I had yesterday the honor of receiving your Letter in which the early establishment of a Cavalry force at Leic...
Friday, 27 May 2016

27th May 1816: Resolutions of a meeting of the Lord Lieutenant & Magistrates of Suffolk at Bury St Edmunds

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SUFFOLK.  AT a Meeting of the LORD LIEUTENANT and the MAGISTRATES of the said County, held at the Shire-Hall, in Bury St. Edmund's, ...
Friday, 13 May 2016

13th May 1816: An informer reports a meeting of framework-knitters in Leicester

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13th May 1816 I had been at the Prince Blucher ever since before two o'Clock. There was a man from Leicester and another from Derby. I...
Wednesday, 4 May 2016

4th May 1816: A meeting of nearly 1000 framework-knitters is dispersed by Cavalry in Derby

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The Leicester Chronicle of Saturday 4th May 1816 carried a story about a meeting of framework-knitters in Derby that had occurred at some po...
Friday, 15 April 2016

15th April 1816: Resolutions of Leicester Framework-knitters meeting

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DISTRESS OF TRADE. At a Meeting of the FRAME-WORK KNITTERS of the Town and County of LEICESTER, held at the Bowling Green, Leicester, on ...
Friday, 24 April 2015

24th April 1815: Public meeting in Nottingham held in check by Magistrates, Military & Constables

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The Sir John Borlase Warren public house (aka the Sir John Warren of 1815) at Canning Circus, Nottingham in 2010 ( image copyright David ...

24th April 1815: George Coldham informs the Home Office that the Luddites are behind the recent public meetings in Nottingham

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Nottingham 24th April 1815 Dear Sir, You will I am sure be sorry to learn that our old Enemies the Luddites are at Work again & upon...
Sunday, 19 April 2015

19th April 1815: Meeting of the unemployed in Nottingham turns into a riot

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By Wednesday 19th April 1815, discontent was stirring in Nottingham, but unlike Luddism, it was far from covert and seemed to be percolating...
Saturday, 20 December 2014

20th December 1814: Lancashire Calico Masters call for the disbanding of the Journeymen's Union

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Dog-Tavern , Manchester , 20 th Dec. 1814. TO THE JOURNEYMAN CALICO PRINTERS, CUTTERS, AND DRAWERS. AN ADDRESS from the MASTER CALIC...
Friday, 25 April 2014

25th April 1814: The William Cartwright Fund agree to disburse the monies raised

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THE LATE DISTURBANCES AT a MEETING of the SUBSCRIBERS to the FUND raised by voluntary Contributions, to mark the Sense entertained by the...
Saturday, 19 April 2014

19th April 1814: Further Leicester Hosiers meeting delays decision on wages

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At a Meeting of the Hosiers held this day at the Exchange, Mr. SAMUEL COLTMAN, in the Chair, it is resolved unanimously. 1st. That althoug...
Monday, 7 April 2014

7th April 1814: Leicester Hosiers meeting takes stockingers' demands for higher wages seriously

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AT a Meeting of the Hosiers convened by public advertisement this day, at the Exchange, Mr. Carr, in the chair, it was unanimously resolved...
Friday, 28 March 2014

28th March 1814: Leciestershire Framework-knitters hold meeting demanding action on wages

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At a General Meeting of the Framework-Knitters of the Town and County of Leicester, held at the [Old] King’s Arms, Sanvy Gate―The following ...
Friday, 21 March 2014

21st March 1814: Meeting of Hosiers in Nottingham agrees to raise prices

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Nottingham , March 21, 1814. AT A MEETING OF HOSIERS, convened by public advertisement, held this day, at the Police Office. IT WA...
Friday, 17 May 2013

17th May 1813: Meeting at the Yew Tree Inn, Roberttown, in support of William Cartwright & Joseph Radcliffe

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The Leeds Intelligencer of 24th May 1813 carried an article about a meeting in Roberttown held to organise a reward and recognition for Will...
Sunday, 12 May 2013

12th May 1813: Meeting in Halifax in support of William Cartwright & Joseph Radcliffe

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HALIFAX. At a numerous and highly respectable Public Meeting of Inhabitants of the Town and Parish of Halifax, called by the Constables...