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Wednesday, 29 April 2015

29th April 1815: George Coldham informs the Home Office about more threats to Hosiers

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Private . Dear Sir You will have learned before this that the mission to London is abandoned, but I am equally obliged to you for your a...
Monday, 27 April 2015

27th April 1815: George Coldham names a Luddite suspected of shootings in Nottinghamshire

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Private. Dear Sir You will perceive by the inclosed Report, that the revolutionary Exchequer is not amply supplied as it cannot raise £6...
Sunday, 26 April 2015

26th April 1815: Suicide of a framework-knitter, William Wakefield of Old Radford

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On Wednesday 26th April, an unemployed framework-knitter called William Wakefield from Old Radford committed suicide by taking poison. He le...
Saturday, 25 April 2015

25th April 1815: Nottingham County Magistrates warn against future demonstrations

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TO THE INHABITANTS OF THE COUNTY COUNTY NOTTINGHAM. AN ADDRESS was on Saturday the 22d of April instant posted up in the Town and...
Friday, 24 April 2015

24th April 1815: Public meeting in Nottingham held in check by Magistrates, Military & Constables

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The Sir John Borlase Warren public house (aka the Sir John Warren of 1815) at Canning Circus, Nottingham in 2010 ( image copyright David ...

24th April 1815: George Coldham informs the Home Office that the Luddites are behind the recent public meetings in Nottingham

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Nottingham 24th April 1815 Dear Sir, You will I am sure be sorry to learn that our old Enemies the Luddites are at Work again & upon...

24th April 1815: George Coldham issues a Handbill restricting freedom of assembly in Nottingham

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TOWN OF NOTTINGHAM. THE MAGISTRATES of this TOWN have observed with extreme concern the disposition to Violence and Tumult which manifest...
Wednesday, 22 April 2015

22nd April 1815: Handbills announcing public meeting 'upon the Forest' posted in Nottingham

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To the Inhabitants of Nottingham And its Vicinity:— Gentleman and Brother Townsmen It is with the heart felt greef that we behold the Dist...
Sunday, 19 April 2015

19th April 1815: Meeting of the unemployed in Nottingham turns into a riot

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By Wednesday 19th April 1815, discontent was stirring in Nottingham, but unlike Luddism, it was far from covert and seemed to be percolating...
Saturday, 18 April 2015

Alan Brooke's review of the 2015 Luddite Memorial Lecture

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Huddersfield historian Alan Brooke has published a review of the 2015 Luddite Memorial Lecture , which we republish here. The second Lud...
Thursday, 16 April 2015

The 2015 Luddite Memorial Lecture: 'York Castle and its political prisoners: the Luddites in a broader context' by Malcolm Chase

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The 2015 Luddite Memorial Lecture was delivered at Huddersfield University by Professor Malcolm Chase , this year on the same date as the bu...
Tuesday, 14 April 2015

Ned Ludd enters the General Election - a response to 'Yorkshire First'

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Over on his website , the 'Yorkshire First' candidate for Colne Valley in the forthcoming General Election - Paul Salveson - has biz...
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Friday, 10 April 2015

How the press reported the news of the Tambora eruption

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In the days before the invention and widespread use of the electric telegraph, international news travelled very slowly indeed - basically, ...

10th April 1815: The eruption of Mount Tambora intensifies

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The Mount Tambora Caldera today (NASA Earth Observatory via Wikimedia Commons ). Prior to the explosion, Mount Tambora was 14,000 ft high,...