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Tuesday, 27 December 2016

27th December 1816: Joseph Allen confesses to frame-breaking in Leicester in 1815

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The 3rd January 1817 edition of the Leicester Chronicle carried an article about a Luddite called Joseph Allen who had confessed to breaking...
Saturday, 24 December 2016

24th December 1816: 'Song for the Luddites' by Lord Byron

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On Tuesday 24th December 1816, Lord Byron was in Venice, Italy. In a long letter to his friend, the Irish poet Thomas Moore (which can be ...

24th December 1816: An extraordinary letter is sent to the Home Secretary from an Overseer of the Poor in Derbyshire

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Melbourne near Derby Decr 24 1816 My Lord Permit me to lay before you a statement of the deplorable situation to which this ruined Pari...

24th December 1816: A Nottingham magistrate informs the Home Office of the attack on George Kerry

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My Lord I am sorry to inform your Lordship, that on Sunday night last the 22d Inst, a little before eight O'Clock, two men, one about ...
Thursday, 22 December 2016

22nd December 1816: Assassination attempt on George Kerry, at Aspley, Nottinghamshire - the final Luddite raid?

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On the evening of  Sunday 22nd December 1816, an attempt was made on the life of a framework-knitter called George Kerry, in the village of ...

22nd December 1816: The death of John Blackner - a 'General Ludd'?

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A mezzotint of John Blackner, after an original by R Bonington. On Sunday 22nd December the Nottingham Review journalist & historian...
Saturday, 17 December 2016

17th December 1817: John Wheatley tells the Home Office that frame-breaking is 'falling into disrepute with the Workmen' in Nottingham

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Wollaton Park Nr Nottingham December 17.. 1816 Sir In consequence of an Interview I had with my Lord Sidmouth, in the middle of October...
Tuesday, 13 December 2016

13th December 1816: The Home Office responds to Louis Allsopp's letter

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Whitehall Decr: 13th 1816. Sir, I am much obliged to you for your Letter of 9th: inst , and the two Inclosures. The Purpose of enforcin...
Friday, 9 December 2016

9th December 1816: Louis Allsopp continues to use his back-channel to the Home Office

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Nottingham 9 Dec. 1816.— My Lord— I only returned last night, & have lost no time in making the necessary applications to obtain fo...

9th December 1816: Henry Enfield suggests to the Home Office that the Luddites named by James Towle are arrested

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Nottingham Decr. 9. 1816 Sir Enclosed I transmit you, for the Information of Lord Sidmouth a copy of our last Secret Report I thought ...
Tuesday, 6 December 2016

6th December 1816: Informer's report about Nottinghamshire Luddites

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6th December 1816. I was at Basford on Sunday & when I got home about nine I learnt that Badder & Adam had been to see me—I saw B...

6th December 1816: An Exeter man suggests moving woollen manufacturing from the disturbed districts to Devonshire

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My Lord If I am wrong in addressing this letter to your Lordship I hope the intention will be received as my apology; I will not however t...
Thursday, 1 December 2016

1st December 1816: Jeffrey Lockett writes to Louis Allsop about James Towle's confession

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Derby Decr 1st 1816 My Dear Allsopp In the night before his execution Towle made a full confession to Mr Mundy, who was sent for to Lei...
Wednesday, 30 November 2016

30th November 1816: 'A Letter to the Luddites' by William Cobbett

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FRIENDS AND FELLOW COUNTRYMEN, At this time, when the cause of freedom is making a progress which is as cheering to the hearts of her f...

30th November 1816: Another correspondent writes to the Leeds Mercury in the debate about shearing frames vs hand-cropping

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MR PRINTER,—In your paper of the 23d inst. I observed a comparison between the dressing of cloth by manual labour and machinery . Now, thou...
Saturday, 26 November 2016

26th November 1816: The Home Office tells Henry Enfield that his plans to detain suspected Luddites is unlawful

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W. 26 Nov. 1816 Sir I am [directed] by Lord [Sidmouth] to [acknowledge] the [illegible] of yr [letter] of the 23d. inst with its Inclos...
Wednesday, 23 November 2016

23rd November 1816: Henry Enfield suggests apprehending the men named in James Towle's confession to the Home Office

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Nottingham Novr. 23d. 1816. Sir Herewith I transmit, for the Information of Lord Sidmouth, a Copy of the last Report of our Secret Agent...