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Wednesday, 26 April 2017

26th April 1817: Jeffrey Lockett updates the Home Office about Christopher Blackburn & other wanted Luddites

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Derby April 26th 1817 Sir In confidence of your letter of yesterdays date, I have given directions for the immediate apprehension of Chr...
Tuesday, 25 April 2017

25th April 1817: Informer's report on a meeting with the notorious Nottingham Luddite, Benjamin Badder

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25th April 1817. I was with B. Badder last night and the night before—We were talking about the Ludds that were hung , when he said (afte...

25th April 1817: Charles Mundy writes to the Home Secretary about the wanted Luddite, Christopher Blackburn

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Private Burton April 25th 1817 near Loughborough My Lord I have the Honour to state in addition to what your Lordship will have recei...
Monday, 24 April 2017

24th April 1817: Louis Allsopp writes to the Home Office about the wanted Luddite, Christopher Blackburn

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Private Nottingham 24 April 1817.— My Lord— Mr Mundy came here yesterday afternoon, & We have had a great deal of Conversation on...
Sunday, 23 April 2017

23rd April 1817: Jeffrey Lockett informs the Home Secretary that the wanted Luddite, Christopher Blackburn, is in Nottingham

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Derby April 23d: 1817 My Lord The death of a near relation of Mrs Mundy has taken Mr Mundy into Lincolnshire,— and in his absence I pres...
Tuesday, 18 April 2017

18th April 1817: The executed Luddites are buried in Nottingham & Chilwell

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The Leicester Chronicle of Friday 25th April 1817 reported the burial of the Luddites executed at Leicester, on the day following their hang...

18th April 1817: Gratian Hart suspects a 'nest of refugee Luddites at Calais'

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Friday Morng. [18th April 1817] I have long some days, suspected there was a nest of refugee Luddites in Calais; the enclosed Letter appe...

18th April 1817: The Nottingham Review reports the arrest of Gravenor Henson for High Treason

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As a report has been in circulation for some days past, that Gravenor Henson and William Robinson, the persons who were deputed to carry the...
Monday, 17 April 2017

17th April 1817: J Anderson of Notts writes to a Mr Wood at Calais, France "ned Is at Leister now And they can do As they like"

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[To] Mr. Wood at Mr. Thompsons Bass Ville Calais France Dear friend I Received your Letter yesterday dated 12th And I ham very sory th...

James Hobson 'The Last Luddite Executions, April 17th 1817'

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Luddites destroyed machines in the Midlands in the period 1811-1816. These machines were destroying skilled jobs and emboldening the master ...

17th April 1817: The Mayor of Leicester reports the Luddite executions to the Home Office

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Leicester 2 oClo Thursday April 17 1817 Dear Sir I have the satisfaction to acquaint you that the Execution of the six Luddites here ha...

17th April 1817: The Loughborough Job Luddites' hymn - 'How sad our state by nature is!'

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How sad our state by nature is! Our sin, how deep it stains! And SATAN binds our captive minds Fast in his slavish chains. Bu...

17th April 1817: The final Luddite executions at Leicester - John Amos, John Crowther, Joshua Mitchell, Thomas Savage, William Towle & William Withers are hanged

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On Thursday 17th April 1817, the final executions of Luddites took place at Leicester. There was coverage in various local newspapers bu...

17th April 1817: Charles Mundy sends Thomas Savage's statement to Lord Sidmouth

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Burton April 17th. 1817. near Loughborough My Lord I have the Honour to enclose for your Lordships information the statement made to me...

17th April 1817: Awaiting his execution, the Luddite, John Crowther, writes to his wife

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New Bridewell, Leicester, 8 o'clock, on the morning of our execution. O my dearest and best of Wives, When you receive this, I shall...
Sunday, 16 April 2017

16th April 1817: "The Last Gift of John Amos, to his Dear Children"

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The Luddite John Amos, awaiting sentence of death the following day at Leicester, allegedly wrote this poem to his children into the Bible h...

16th April 1817: The GPO Surveyor, Gratian Hart, forwards the letter from John Blackburn to William Burton, to his superior

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Nottingham 16 April 1817 Dear Sir Among the letters from Leicester this Afternoon, was one, directed Mr. William Burton , Lambley, near ...

16th April 1817: Charles Mundy informs the Home Secretary of the preparations for the executions the following day

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Leicester April 16 1817 My Lord I have the Honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordships letter of the fourteenth & to say tha...
Friday, 14 April 2017

14th April 1817: Louis Allsopp updates the Home Office on the mood in Nottinghamshire

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Nottingham 14 April 1817. My Lord. I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordships letters this Afternoon.— Your Lords...
Thursday, 13 April 2017

13th April 1817: The GPO Surveyor, Gratian Hart, reports that news of Gravenor Henson's arrest has not brought any reaction

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Nottingham April 13. 1817 Dear Sir Mr Allsop had prepared me for the arrest of Grosvenor Henson in Town, when, we expected, the intelli...