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Friday, 18 May 2012

18th May 1812: The Manchester spy, John Bent, files his latest report for Colonel Fletcher

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On Monday 18th May 1812, Colonel Fletcher 's spy 'B' (aka John Bent), finished another report for his master. On 12th May, Be...

18th May 1812: Edmund Eastwood, William Horsfall's companion on his final journey, dies

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On Monday 18th May, Edmund Eastwood, a manufacturer friend of William Horsfall, died. He had ridden alongside William Horsfall during part o...

18th May 1812: Troops build up in Nottinghamshire

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On 18th May 1812, the Times reported that a new camp was being formed in Sherwood Forest, 7 miles from Nottingham, which would accommodate 3...
Thursday, 17 May 2012

'Repression And Resistance In West Riding Luddism' by Alan Brooke

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(A Paper delivered at the ‘Enoch’s Hammer’ conference, University of Huddersfield, 12 May 2012). Machinery...is a thief and would rob ...
Wednesday, 16 May 2012

16th May 1812: A Luddite-baiter is shot in Nottingham

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On Saturday 16th May 1812, a Mr. Gaunt from Hucknall Torkard, a 'gentleman who had been particularly active in discovering the Luddites...

16th May 1812: Joseph Radcliffe informs the Home Office about prisoners committed to York Castle

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Sir With the concurrence of My brother magistrates, Messrs G. Armitage & F. Scott, acting in this Neighbourhood, I have the honor to i...

16th May 1812: More evidence given at the Select Committee into the Framework-knitters Petitions

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On Saturday 16th May 1812, more witnesses gave evidence at the Parliamentary Select Committee into the Framework-knitters Petitions. Edwar...

16th May 1812: Dates of Lancaster & Chester Special Commissions confirmed and more prisoners committed

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On Saturday 16th May, the Lancaster Gazette brought more news about the forthcoming Lancaster Special Commission. It revealed that the trial...
Tuesday, 15 May 2012

15th May 1812: 'General Ludd's Army' rescue a Luddite at Stalybridge

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The Leeds Mercury of 23rd May 1812 carried the following report about the escape of a suspected Luddite in Stalybridge and his subsequent re...

15th May 1812: Letter from “I-G" at Leeds to Benjamin Gott at Leeds

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I-G to Benjamin Gott,                                                                                               Leeds, 15th May, 1812. ...

'At War with the Facts' – a rebuttal of Richard Jones’ 'At War with the Future’ in History Today, May 2012

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Below is a response to the article about the Luddites written by Cambridge University Student Richard Jones and published in the May 2012 e...

15th May 1812: John Blackner & Edward Allen speak at the Select Committee into the Framework-knitters Petitions

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On Friday 15th May 1812, two more framework-knitters gave evidence at the Parliamentary Select Committee into the Framework-knitters Petitio...

15th May 1812: Colonel Ralph Fletcher informs the Home Office about more prisoners and a new suspect

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Bolton le moors 15 May - 1812 Dear Sir/ I have the Honor to inclose - Copies of the additional Examinations―relating to the Six Persons ...

15th May 1812: The trial of John Bellingham at the Old Bailey

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On Friday 15th May 1812, and less than four days after he had assassinated the Prime Minister Spencer Perceval at the Houses of Parliament...
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...

14th May 1812: Government legal opinion on prosecuting Humphrey Yarwood & John Buckley Booth

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Sir, We had the honor to receive Mr. Beckett’s Letter dated May 9th, 1812 transmitting the inclosed Depositions which he states had been s...

14th May 1812: Thomas Latham at Framework-knitters Select Committee hearing

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On Thursday 14th May Thomas Latham, another member of the United Committee of Framework-knitters, gave evidence before the Parliamentary Sel...

14th May 1812: William Sykes of Meltham charged with raiding for arms

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On 14th May 1812, a shopkeeper from Meltham called William Sykes was charged with representing himself as being 'one of General Ludd...

14th May 1812: Local Militia take part in Loughborough food riot

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On Thursday 14th May, a food riot erupted in the marketplace at Loughborough. The riot began with a row over the price of potatoes - 14 pe...
Sunday, 13 May 2012

13th May 1812: Parliamentary Select Committee on the Framework-knitters Petition commences

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On Wednesday 13th May, a Parliamentary Select Committee was convened at the Houses of Parliament in London to enquire into the state of the ...