An 'Enoch' Sledgehammer, as manufactured by Enoch & James Taylor of Marsden & put to good use by Luddites  We've b...

If you've been following this blog, you may have wondered why it's gone quiet. There are several reasons for this: In terms of the ...

Three calendar months after the last reported frame-breaking incidents, more frames were destroyed at Sutton-in-Ashfield (Kirby-in-Ashfield...

The Huddersfield-based Lawrence Batley Theatre (LBT) is planning to commemorate the Luddite uprisings of 1812 on the bicentenary next year,...

Huddersfield Anarchist League have called a public meeting in Huddersfield tomorrow night (Monday, 6th June 2011) to discuss their plans to...

The Luddite conference at Birkbeck which took place on May 6th was the most important date so far for those interested in the bicentenary. ...

Next month the Luddites200 Organising Forum are holding an open meeting in London entitled "Celebrating the 200 Anniversary of the Lud...

This coming Thursday (19th May) on BBC Radio 4, folk singer John Tams will be exploring the story of the Luddites through their songs. The ...

In 3 weeks time, the Society for Participation, Engagement, Action and Knowledge Sharing (or SPEAKS ) is holding a day long meeting "to...

Tomorrow sees a major conference about the Luddites take place at Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities in London. The conference aims to ...

Historians Jeremy Black and Katrina Navickas debating the Luddites, from BBC Radio 3 'Nightwaves' on Tuesday night. We may add o...

The first, and so far only, explicitly political group set up to commemorate the bicentenary are the Luddites200 Organising Forum . The grou...

Whilst there is still no news of any kind of commemorative events from Nottinghamshire, West Yorkshire has already announced it is planning...

Seven days after the previous reported instance of frame-breaking, the Nottingham Journal published a report 1 , which we have transcribed b...

Almost two weeks after the last reported incident of frame breaking, six more frames were destroyed at Bulwell . Thomis tells us that a rew...

Only 3 days after the broaching of the agreement between the hosiers and framework knitters , it was reported that more frames were broken a...

15 days after direct action by Framework knitters had begun in Arnold, and the Hosiers in and around Nottingham were beaten: a public meeti...

The following letter was printed in the 23rd March 1811 edition of the Nottingham Journal: To Persons concerned in the Nottingham Manufacto...

From the Derby Mercury , 28th March 1811: On the 22d inst. the body of a young man was found lifeless at Long Eaton , in this county, suspe...

Sources of information about exactly what happened following the Arnold attack on 11th March are somewhat thin on the ground. Several author...