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Wednesday, 30 December 2015

30th December 1815: Leeds Cloth Dressers' Union Secretary writes a corrective letter to the Leeds Mercury

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Following the report of his arrest in the 23rd December 1815 edition of the Leeds Mercury, John Sunderland - the Secretary of the Cloth Dr...
Tuesday, 29 December 2015

29th December 1815: Manchester Magistrates request troops due to worries about Calico weavers

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My Lord, In the efforts recently made by the master calico printers in this neighbourhood to resist the unlawful combinations which have ...
Wednesday, 23 December 2015

23rd December 1815: 'The Thrashing Machine: A Tale'

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THE THRASHING MACHINE . A TALE. Many ages ago, the inhabitants of a large, populous, and opulent island were divided into sects or cast...
Tuesday, 22 December 2015

22nd December 1815: The Nottingham Review exposes the Mary Stainsby 'Luddism' hoax to the public

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Hoax extraordinary .—It is known to our readers, that an advertisement appeared in our last, offering a reward of two hundred pounds to an...
Friday, 18 December 2015

18th December 1815: Cloth Dressers' Union Secretary arrested in Leeds

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In the evening of Monday 18th December 1815 John Sunderland, the secretary of the Cloth Dressers' Union (or 'Brief Institution')...
Thursday, 17 December 2015

17th December 1815: James Stevens explains to the Home Secretary the reality of the attack on Mary Stainsby

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Mansfield 17th Decr 1815. My Lord, Since I had the honor of addressing your Lordship on the subject of a female having been shot at in ...
Wednesday, 16 December 2015

16th December 1815: Mansfield Magistrates issue handbills saying attack on Mary Stainsby is unconnected with Luddism

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NOTICE. Mrs. Stainsby. The Public are informed it is most clearly ascertained, that Mrs. Stainsby was NOT SHOT AT MALICIOUSLY, or ...
Monday, 14 December 2015

14th December 1815: James Stevens of Mansfield blames an attack on Luddism

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Mansfield Notts Dec 14th 1815 My Lord— By the advice of Col Need the acting magistrate of this place, I am again under the necessity of...
Saturday, 12 December 2015

12th December 1815: William Cartwright thanks the Home Secretary for the £300 reward sent to him

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Rawfolds December 12. 1815 My Lord I have the Honor to acknowledge the receipt of Three Hundred Pounds, convey’d to me, by your Lordship...
Tuesday, 8 December 2015

8th December 1815: The Warwickshire JP, William Hamper, informs the Home Secretary about a man selling pamphlets about the Luddites

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Birmingham, Decr 8th, 1815— My Lord, A Man named William Cooper , who appears to have been formerly a Grocer at Nottingham , is now trav...
Monday, 23 November 2015

23rd November 1815: 3 threshing machines destroyed by 100 labourers in Suffolk villages

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On Thursday 23rd November 1815, mass machine-breaking broke out in Suffolk. The Bury & Norwich Post of 29th November carried a brief art...
Sunday, 22 November 2015

22nd November 1815: Chepstow Magistrates write to the Home Secretary about the recent destruction of Threshing Machines

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Chepstow 22nd November 1815 My Lord We the undersigned Magistrates acting for the County of Monmouth conceived it to be our duty to inf...
Tuesday, 10 November 2015

10th November 1815: The death of the prisoner William Walker

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'A view near Woolwich in Kent, shewing the employment of the convicts from the hulks', a hand-coloured engraving printed for Bowle...
Monday, 9 November 2015

9th November 1815: Simon Orgill case is brought before the Court of King's Bench

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On Thursday 9th November 1815, the appeal of the Hundred of Westgoscote against the awarding of damages to Simon Orgill , whose lace frame...
Saturday, 7 November 2015

7th November 1815: Charles Sutton appeals to the Court of King's Bench

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Almost four months after his trial for political libel and guilty verdict at Nottingham Assizes, Charles Sutton and his legal team had ap...
Thursday, 8 October 2015

8th October 1815: 2 Threshing Machines destroyed at Chepstow

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The Gloucester Journal of Monday 16th October 1815 reported an incident that took place on the night of Saturday 7th October 1815, in which ...
Saturday, 26 September 2015

26th September 1815: Nottingham Council pays tribute to the late George Coldham

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The memorial to George Coldham, in St Mary's Church, Nottingham (image by Andrew R Abbott , cc licence ) The Leeds Mercury of 14th O...
Friday, 18 September 2015

18th September 1815: George Coldham dies in an accident in Brighton

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George Coldham by William Artaud (c.1810) On Monday 18th September 1815, George Coldham, the Town Clerk of Nottingham and the Luddit...
Friday, 28 August 2015

28th August 1815: Thomas Holden's parents write to him from Bolton

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Bolton y/e 28th 1815 Aug Dear Thomas we jointly take this oppertunity of send\ing/ you a few lines to inform you that we are all well at ...
Wednesday, 26 August 2015

26th August 1815: The Leeds Mercury publishes a final editorial on the Charles Sutton affair

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In the last Intelligencer a boast is put forth by the new Editor that he contributed to bring down upon a rival publication at Nottingham, ...