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Showing posts with label newspaper editorials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label newspaper editorials. Show all posts
Tuesday, 28 February 2017

28th February 1817: The Tory Leicester Journal calls the growing political reform movements 'political Luddism'

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In the last page will be found the Report of the Committee of Secrecy to the House of Commons—we inserted the one to the House of Peers in ...
Wednesday, 25 January 2017

25th January 1817: Both Nottinghamshire newspapers publish editorials about the 'Loughborough Job' arrests

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On Saturday 25th January 1817, both Nottinghamshire newspapers published editorials with varying degrees of detail.  From the Tory Notting...
Friday, 4 November 2016

4th November 1816: Tory Nottingham Journal promises to go on the 'attack' against Luddism

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Whilst we contemplate with satisfaction the exertions which are now making in order to give employment and afford relief to the peaceable an...
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...
Tuesday, 26 July 2016

26th July 1816: The London Courier defends the transportation of the Ely prisoners

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An editorial in the 26th July 1816 edition of the London Courier attacked the meeting recently held in Ely which expressed disquiet about t...
Sunday, 24 July 2016

24th July 1816: Bury & Norwich Post editorial about the recent meeting in Ely

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ELY, JULY 22, 1816. We are much concerned to state, that an occurrence which has recently taken place here has occasioned a very conside...
Tuesday, 12 July 2016

12th July 1816: The Tory Leicester Journal sees the 'Loughborough Job' as a consequence of 'democratic principles'

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On Friday 12th July 1816, the Tory Leicester Journal carried an article reporting recent arrests for the 'Loughborough Job' in which...
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, 7 August 2015

7th August 1815: The Leeds Intelligencer gloats over the verdict of the Charles Sutton trial

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On Monday 7th August, the Tory Leeds Intelligencer published an editorial about the recent trial of the proprietor of the Nottingham Revie...
Tuesday, 21 October 2014

21st October 1814: The owner of the Nottingham Review, Charles Sutton, apologises for the 'General Ludd' letter

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The Nottingham Review of Friday 21st October 1814 contained a brief editorial by the owner, Charles Sutton, for the satirical 'General L...
Wednesday, 22 May 2013

22nd May 1813: The Leeds newspapers report on a massive petition for parliamentary reform

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On Saturday 22nd May 1813, the Leeds Mercury carried a letter about a local petition for parliamentary reform: PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. MR. ...
Friday, 26 April 2013

26th April 1813: The Leeds Intelligencer publishes a last word on 'Attentive Hearer' row

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On Monday 26th April 1813, the Leeds Intelligencer published a final editorial on the row that had taken up column inches over the past 3 mo...
Wednesday, 24 April 2013

24th April 1813: The Leeds Mercury publishes a final editorial on the row with 'An Attentive Hearer'

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An Attentive Hearer has declined the challenge we last week gave him to close the dispute, by submitting the evidence on both sides, fairl...
Wednesday, 17 April 2013

17th April 1813: The Leeds Mercury issues another challenge to "An Attentive Hearer"

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An “ Attentive Hearer " is at his usual work again. He has not, as was required of him, published the words of the person referred to,...
Wednesday, 3 April 2013

3rd April 1813: The Leeds Mercury taunts 'An Attentive Hearer' in an editorial

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An " Attentive Hearer " is more invincible than Dr. Goldsmith’s Village Schoolmaster. His witnesses, he says, in his last letter,...
Wednesday, 27 March 2013

27th March 1813: The Leeds Mercury publishes an editorial about 'an Attentive Hearer'

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It must be admitted on all hands that an Attentive Hearer " dies game ," or after the figure he has already cut, he would never ...
Wednesday, 13 March 2013

13th March 1813: A Leeds Mercury editorial attempts to settle the dispute about George Mellor's last words

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THE POINT AT ISSUE. A dispute of little interest perhaps, except to the disputants, has for some weeks been maintained to the Leeds News...
Wednesday, 30 January 2013

30th January 1813: The Leeds Mercury reprints the Reverend Brown's letter about George Mellor's last words

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The following Letter , addressed to the Editor of the Leeds Intelligencer, by the Rev. G. Brown, Chaplain of the Castle of York, is decisiv...
Friday, 25 January 2013

25th January 1813: The Leeds Intelligencer suggests liberal newspapers are to blame for Luddism

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It requires no extraordinary acuteness of penetration nor clearness of judgement to perceive, that, from the first appearance of open viole...