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Thursday, 4 September 2014

4th September 1814: 16 stocking frames destroyed in Old & New Basford

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On Sunday 4th September, just before midnight on the 5th, around 20 Luddites undertook a series of raids in both Old and New Basford in Nott...
Wednesday, 3 September 2014

3rd September 1814: 'Some Account of Joanna Southcott, the Pretended Propehtess'

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This 'Passport to Heaven' from 1803 was sold at Bonhams in 2007 for £2520 From the Leeds Mercury of Saturday 3rd September 181...

3rd September 1814: Casualties to machinery in Leeds in the last week

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From the Leeds Mercury, Saturday 3rd September 1814: The following casualties have occurred during the present week, at Hunslet, near th...
Sunday, 31 August 2014

31st August 1814: Letter from 'A Priest' to the 'Editor of the Nottingham Gazette'

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LOST MANUSCRIPT! TO THE EDITOR OF THE NOTTINGHAM REVIEW. SIR—Walking near the rock-holes in the park, early this morning, I picked up t...
Thursday, 28 August 2014

28th August 1814: More news about Joanna Southcott's 'pregnancy'

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From the Leeds Mercury of 3rd September 1814: On Sunday [28th August 1814] a considerable multitude were assembled at Mr. Tozer’s Chapel,...
Tuesday, 26 August 2014

26th August 1814: Burglary & attempted burglary at the premises of two Leicester Hosiers

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Late in the evening of Friday 26th August 1814, burglars targeted the premises of two Hosiers in Leicester. The warehouse of F. Burgess in...
Sunday, 24 August 2014

24th August 1814: British armed forces capture Washington, burn down the White House & Capitol

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Tom Freeman 'Burning of the White House by British Soldiers' (2004) On the evening of Wednesday 24th August 1814, and after def...
Tuesday, 12 August 2014

12th August 1814: George Coldham tells the Home Office that the resumption of frame-breaking shows the FWK Union is weak

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Leamington 12th August 1814 Dear Sir, I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your two Letters of the 6th & 9th of August last both of w...
Thursday, 7 August 2014

7th August 1814: 'Joanna Southcott and her Crib'

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On Sunday 7th August 1814, The Examiner published  an article which discussed at length the gifts being showered upon the self-proclaimed pr...
Wednesday, 6 August 2014

6th August 1814: The Procurator Fiscal of Dumfries sends an intercepted letter to the Mayor of Nottingham

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Dumfries 6 August 1814 Sir A Correspondence having lately been discovered to have commenced here, betwixt the Journeymen Stocking makers...

6th August 1814: "You are a damned Luddite, and back the Luds."

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The Leeds Mercury of Saturday 6th August 1814 carried an article about a case at the recent York Summer Assizes for an assault. The case is ...
Saturday, 2 August 2014

2nd August 1814: George Coldham updates the Home Office about recent framebreaking & requests troops

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Nottingham 2d August 1814 Dear Sir, Had not the hurry of the Assizes intervened I [wld] have written to you much sooner on the subject o...
Thursday, 31 July 2014

31st July 1814: The Nottingham solicitor, Louis Allsop, updates the Home Office on local framebreaking

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Nottingham 31st July 1814 Dr Sir I have taken the opportunity of having some Conversation with Mr Coldham on the subject of the degree ...
Monday, 28 July 2014

28th July 1814: Percy Bysshe Shelley & Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin elope to Europe

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After a developing and all-enveloping love affair that had lasted from the day they met in May, Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godw...
Sunday, 27 July 2014

27th July 1814: 7 frames broken at 3 locations in Nottinghamshire

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In the early hours of Wednesday 27th July 1814, Luddites launched 3 raids across Nottinghamshire. Four frames, the property of the well-kn...
Friday, 11 July 2014

11th July 1814: George Coldham sends the FWK Union's seized papers to the Home Office

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Nottingham 11th July 1814 Dear Sir, I herewith send you for Lord Sidmouth’s Information a short memorandum or Note of the Contents of su...
Monday, 7 July 2014

7th July 1814: George Coldham updates the Home Office on the conviction of the FWK Union officers

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Nottm 7th July 1814. Dear Sir, In consequence of the hurry occasioned to me personally by many circumstances connected with Conviction o...
Saturday, 5 July 2014

5th July 1814: The Town Clerk of Nottingham informs the Home Office about the arrest of FWK Union officers and seizure of books

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Nottm 5th July 1814. Dear Sir, I have the pleasure to inform you that for the Honour of the Police of this Town the Magistrates Mr Alder...
Wednesday, 2 July 2014

2nd July 1814: George Coldham reports an attempt to break the Framework-knitters Union

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Nottingham 2d. July 1814 Dear Sir, On Friday Sennight last we summoned before the Magistrates in the Name of Messrs Rays but in reality ...
Thursday, 26 June 2014

26th June 1814: Percy Shelley & Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin meet in St Pancras Churchyard

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In the evening of Sunday 26th June 1814, the poet Percy Shelley met his lover, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin at the grave of Mary's...