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Showing posts with label riot act. Show all posts
Showing posts with label riot act. Show all posts
Sunday, 29 May 2016

29th May 1816: Riots continue at Halstead, Essex

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Following the liberation of 4 prisoners at Halstead, Essex and the riot that had ensued the day before, more rioting occurred in the evenin...
Friday, 20 May 2016

20th May 1816: Riot averted at Mundford, Norfolk

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The Bury & Norwich Post of 29th May 1816 briefly reported that a riot had been averted at Mundford, Norfolk on Monday 20th May 1816: ...

20th May 1816: Serious rioting in Downham Market

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Early on Monday 20th May 1816, serious rioting broke out in Downham Market, lasting all of the day. Norfolk. Peacock (1965, pp.87-92) gave ...
Wednesday, 18 May 2016

18th May 1816: The Mayor of Norwich updates the Home Office on the situation in the city

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Guildhall Norwich 18th May 1816. My Lord I am again obliged to write your Lordship and so acquaint you that the Outrages were so much r...
Tuesday, 17 May 2016

17th May 1816: "Bread or Blood in Brandon this day"

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Peacock (1965, pp.79-80) continues his description of the events in Brandon on Friday 17th May 1816: The following day, John Kendle, a de...

17th May 1816: Rioting continues in Norwich

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The second day of rioting in Norwich continued on Friday 17th May, and the Bury & Norwich Post of 22nd May 1816 carried the following de...

17th May 1816: Norwich magistrates post handbills warning against rioting

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NORWICH. AT a COURT of MAYORALTY, held the Seventeenth Day of May, 1816. THE misguided People, who were guilty of the Riot and Tumul...
Monday, 16 May 2016

16th May 1816: Labourers demanding higher wages assemble in Brandon, Suffolk

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On Thursday 16th May 1816 began three days of disturbances in the Suffolk village of Brandon. Labourers demanding higher wages used mass ass...
Friday, 6 May 2016

6th May 1816: Food riot in Bridport, Dorset

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The Royal Cornwall Gazette of 18th May 1816 carried reports of rioting that took place in Bridport on Monday 6th May 1816: Monday morning,...
Friday, 7 September 2012

7th September 1812: 'Madam Ludd' joins 'Lady Ludd' in food riots in Nottingham

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On Monday 7th September, the food riots that had affected Sheffield and Leeds in Yorkshire spread to Nottinghamshire, and the town of Nottin...
Monday, 14 May 2012

14th May 1812: The Town Clerk of Nottingham informs the Home Office of crowds celebrating the death of Spencer Perceval

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Sir, I am sure that you will give me Credit for most sincerely deploring the Death of Mr Percival as an Event which may forever tarnish th...
Friday, 20 April 2012

20th April 1812: Colonel Clay informs the Home Office of the state of Manchester & the surrounding towns

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Manchester 20. April 1812 ½ past 11 o’clock. P.M. Sir In consequence of information I received from the Police Office at a late hour l...

20th April 1812: Serious rioting across the North West of England

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On Monday 20th April 1812, serious rioting broke in many towns across the North-West of England. Much of it bore the character of food rioti...

20th April 1812: Second day of serious rioting in Manchester

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On Monday 20th April 1812, they was serious rioting in Manchester, only 2 days after a food riot in the Shudehill and New Cross area. The ...
Friday, 13 April 2012

13th April 1812: Rioting in Macclesfield

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  The following passage from the Chester Courant of 21st April 1812 describes the rioting that took place in Macclesfield on Monday 13th Apr...
Sunday, 8 April 2012

8th April 1812: Cancelled Loyalist meeting at Manchester Exchange Buildings turns into a riot

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Manchester Exchange Buildings by John Harwood, from 'Lancashire Illustrated' , 1832. Following the requisition presented to the M...
Monday, 14 November 2011

14th November 1811: The funeral of the Luddite John Westley

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In the afternoon of Thursday the 14th November, an almost palpable air of tension existed in the village of Arnold. Up to 1000 people had ga...
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