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Friday, 10 April 2015

10th April 1815: Thomas Holden's family write to him from Bolton

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Haugh y/e 10th April 1815 Dear Thos. Your uncle Richd holden is dead and was interd the First day of this present hear all the Rest of und...
Sunday, 5 April 2015

5th April 1815: The eruption of Mount Tambora

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On Wednesday 5th April 1815, at Mount Tambora on the island of Sumbawa in the Dutch East Indies, what would become the largest observed vo...
Saturday, 4 April 2015

4th April 1815: Fire at a machine-makers in Leeds

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At 1.00 a.m. on Tuesday 4th April 1815, a fire broke out at the premises of John Jubb, a machine maker on Meadow Lane in Leeds. The fire des...
Wednesday, 1 April 2015

1st April 1815: Gosbeck machine-breakers sentenced at Suffolk Assizes

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Suffolk Lent Assizes ended on Saturday 1st April 1815, and the nine men arrested for breaking threshing machines at Gosbeck on 21st February...
Friday, 27 March 2015

27th March 1815: George Coldham writes to the Home Secretary about James Towle's trial

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Private and confidential. My Lord I have now the honor to address your Lordship on the subject of the Trial of James Towle for Burglary ...

27th March 1815: George Coldham writes to John Beckett about the trial of James Towle

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Private and Confidential. Dear Sir Independent of my letter to Lord Sidmouth and of my formal letter to you, I think it right to inform ...
Wednesday, 25 March 2015

25th March 1815: Sunderland Magistrates update the Home Secretary about the recent riots

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My Lord The Magistrates of this Town & district apprised your Lordship on the 21st Instant of the Riot, which had taken place on the p...
Monday, 23 March 2015

23rd March 1815: Threatening letter from 'a Keelman' at Sunderland

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1815 March 23 Revd Sir We the Kellmen humbly Request that you will speak in our Behalf as we are all from one Common Parent and the po...
Saturday, 21 March 2015

21st March 1815: George Coldham informs the Home Office of the result of James Towle's trial

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Private & confidential Nottingham 21st March 1815 Dear Sir, I am still engaged in the hurry of the Business of the Assizes altho’ ...

21st March 1815: The trial of James Towle, for framebreaking, at Nottingham Lent Assizes

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On Tuesday 21st March 1815, perhaps the most notorious Luddite in the Midlands - James Towle - took his trial at Nottingham Lent Assizes, c...

21st March 1815: Thomas Thompson of Sunderland writes to the Home Office about the riots

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My dear Sir We were last night thrown into the greatest states of alarm, the Keelmen casters & others working in the wear assembled in...

21st March 1815: Sunderland magistrates request troops to quell riots

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Sunderland 21st March 1815. My Lord We the undersigned Magistrates acting for this Town and district feel it our duty to inform your Lor...
Friday, 20 March 2015

20th March 1815: Keelman & Casters at Bishopwearmouth destroy new Colliery equipment

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The Durham County Advertiser of 25th March 1815 carried news of a riot by Keelmen and Casters at Bishopwearmouth on Monday 21st March 1815, ...

20th March 1815: Charles Sutton's prosecution at Nottingham Assizes is postponed

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On the morning of Monday 20th March 1815 Charles Sutton, the owner of the Nottingham Review, faced a trial at Nottingham Lent Assizes for th...
Tuesday, 17 March 2015

17th March 1815: Charles Sutton receives notice of his trial for political libel

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The Friday 17th March edition of the Nottingham Review contained the following editorial, ahead of the shortly forthcoming Lent Assizes: W...
Thursday, 12 March 2015

12th March 1815: Anonymous threatening letter sent to Sir Joseph Radcliffe

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Sir Joseph Ratclitf March the 12 1815 Ludding is going to Start here again there has been A meetting of croppers at my house but I hea...
Sunday, 8 March 2015

8th March 1815: Stockport Magistrates write a reference for Captain Francis Raynes

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In his continuing efforts to obtain compensation from government, Francis Raynes had now enlisted the Stockport Magistrates to provide a re...
Saturday, 7 March 2015

7th March 1815: Francis Raynes senses time is running out for his 'reward'

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Almost three years after the height of the Luddite disturbances, Francis Raynes was still doggedly pursuing compensation from government fo...
Friday, 6 March 2015

6th March 1815: The Corn Bill debate in the House of Commons takes place against a backdrop of riots in Westminster

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Amidst scenes of riot at the Palace of Westminster , in opposition to the proposed Corn Bill, Members of Parliament interrupted a debate on ...

6th March 1815: Corn Bill riot at the Palace of Westminster & in London's West End

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A C19th engraving depicting the Corn Bill riot at the Palace of Westminster on 6th March 1815, which allegedly appeared in an 1895 edi...
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