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Showing posts with label melbourne. Show all posts
Saturday, 24 December 2016

24th December 1816: An extraordinary letter is sent to the Home Secretary from an Overseer of the Poor in Derbyshire

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Melbourne near Derby Decr 24 1816 My Lord Permit me to lay before you a statement of the deplorable situation to which this ruined Pari...
Wednesday, 26 December 2012

26th December 1812: Warning signed 'Ned Ludd' posted in Melbourne, Derbyshire

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After the raid on Thomas Mitchell's workshop in the early hours of Boxing Day, 26th December 1812, when the Derbyshire town of Melbourne...

26th December 1812: 10 stocking-frames broken by Luddites in Melbourne, Derbyshire

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At midnight on Saturday 26th December 1812, Derbyshire Luddites conducted their first raid in almost a year. a 'large party' of Ludd...
Tuesday, 27 December 2011

27th December 1811: Address of the Framework Knitters of Melbourne

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Melbourne, December 23, 1811 THE Framework-Knitters of this peaceable and hitherto undisturbed Town were very much rejoiced to hear that th...
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