Context is all important when one reads the account below of the execution of the 'Luddite burglars' James Tomlinson and Perceval C...

 The Nottingham Review of 27th March 1812 had extensive coverage of the trial of the Derbyshire 'Luddite burglars' whose trial took ...

On Tuesday 25th February a framework-knitter, Pierce Cook, who was wanted for robberies in Derbyshire that had taken place at the end of De...