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Showing posts with label west yorkshire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label west yorkshire. Show all posts
Thursday, 28 September 2017

28th September 1817: Viscount Lascelles writes to Lord Sidmouth about the plight of the Croppers

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My dear Lord. In the course of the last Session of [Parliament] your Lordship may recollect that I together with a Deputation from the Clo...
Saturday, 11 February 2017

11th February 1817: Leeds Croppers petition brought up in the House of Commons

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On Tuesday 11th February 1817, a petition from Croppers in Leeds about the use of cloth-dressing machinery was debated in the House of  Comm...
Wednesday, 30 November 2016

30th November 1816: Another correspondent writes to the Leeds Mercury in the debate about shearing frames vs hand-cropping

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MR PRINTER,—In your paper of the 23d inst. I observed a comparison between the dressing of cloth by manual labour and machinery . Now, thou...
Wednesday, 23 November 2016

23rd November 1816: Correspondents argue about shearing frames in the Leeds Mercury

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In addition to the above paper , on the general subject, the following observations on the use of Machinery in the Dressing of Woollen Clot...

23rd November 1816: 'A Manufacturer' replies to 'Observator' in the argument about technology in the Leeds Mercury

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MR. EDITOR,—I would not have troubled you with this, had I not felt much disappointment, on perusing your paper of Saturday last, to find b...
Wednesday, 16 November 2016

16th October 1816: 'Investigator' writes to the Leeds Mercury in defence of Machinery

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Mr. EDITOR—I do not all agree with "Observator," in your last week’s Mercury , in the recommendation of a Tax on Machinery, neith...
Wednesday, 9 November 2016

9th November 1816: 'Observator' writes to the Leeds Mercury advocating the taxation of machinery

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To the EDITOR of the LEEDS MERCURY. SIR—I rely upon your well-known for the insertion in your widely extended paper of the following rem...
Sunday, 6 November 2016

6th November 1816: West Riding Magistrates fear return to a 'Luddite System' following the murder of a gamekeeper

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Kildwick Novr 6th 1816. My Lord, We the undersigned magistrates acting in & for the West Riding of Yorkshire beg leave to call your ...
Sunday, 30 October 2016

30th October 1816: Croppers lose wages case at Pontefract Sessions

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A court case regarding Croppers' wages that came before Pontefract Sessions is a good example of how the spectre of Luddism was invoked ...
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...
Wednesday, 13 July 2016

13th July 1816: Report on the weather in the Leeds Mercury

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The Weather .—The oldest man living does not recollect such unseasonable weather as we have lately experienced. But this is the case not on...
Monday, 20 June 2016

20th June 1816: The Mayor of Leeds request troops from the Home Secretary

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To the Rt Honble the Lord Visc Sidmouth His Majesty's principal Secretary of State for the Home Department My Lord I had the honou...
Tuesday, 26 April 2016

26th April 1816: The Secretary of the Leeds Cloth Dressers' Union outlines their distress to the Leeds Mercury

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To the editor of the Leeds Mercury. Sir, Who is the true Friend of his Country? This Question strikes me more forcibly at a Time like th...
Friday, 26 February 2016

26th February 1816: The Huddersfield solicitor John Allison informs the Home Secretary about the latest Luddite attack in the West Riding

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Huddersfield 26th February 1816 My Lord It is with extreme concern that I have to report to your Lordship, that a system of disturbance ...
Thursday, 25 February 2016

25th February 1816: Four shearing frames broken by Luddites at Quarmby, their final action in the West Riding

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At 1.00 a.m. on Sunday 25th February 1816, the final Luddite action in the West Riding took place - just after the fourth anniversary of the...
Wednesday, 17 February 2016

17th February 1816: Weather report from Bradford

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The Leeds Mercury of Saturday 17th February 1816 carried a local report about the increasingly cold weather being experienced in the 'ye...
Monday, 8 February 2016

8th February 1816: Temperature of minus 12 Fahrenheit recorded in Leeds

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On Saturday 10th February 1816, the Leeds Mercury carried this brief article about the extent of the severity of the winter weather recorded...
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Wednesday, 20 January 2016

20th January 1816: Fire at a Scribbling Mill in Leeds, 'cause not yet ascertained'

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The Leeds Mercury of Saturday 27th January 1816 reported a fire that had taken place in Leeds the week previously: Saturday morning, about...
Sunday, 17 January 2016

17th January 1816: Cloth belonging to Wormald, Gott & Wormald damaged in Leeds

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Some time in the evening of Wednesday 17th January 1816, some cloth upon the tenters at the Park Lane factory of Wormald, Gott & Worma...
Saturday, 16 January 2016

16th January 1816: The Leeds Cloth Dressers Union case comes to court

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On Tuesday 16th January 1816, the case of the Union Officers arrested and charged with aiding and abetting an illegal combination (i.e. Tra...