An initial response to Richard Jones’ research on the Luddites published in...
I wrote to the Huddersfield Daily Examiner following their story in the 12th April 2012 edition which adapts the press release put out by Richard Jones, a research student at Cambridge University. He...
View ArticleRepression And Resistance In West Riding Luddism
(A Paper delivered at the ‘Enoch’s Hammer’ conference, University of Huddersfield, 12th May 2012). Machinery…is a thief and would rob thousands, we shall find that it shall be the destruction of this...
View Article‘At War with the Facts’ – a rebuttal of Richard Jones’ ‘At War with the...
Below is a response to the article about the Luddites written by Cambridge University Student Richard Jones and published in the May 2012 edition of ‘History Today’. The article has been written...
View ArticleBook Review – Ned Ludd & Queen Mab by Peter Linebaugh
The bicentenary of the Luddite risings has produced disappointingly little new academic research on Luddism. However, this booklet of only 40 pages goes some way towards filling that vacuum. Based on a...
View ArticleThomas Ellis – the intended recipient of George Mellor’s last letter from...
This article was originally published on Luddite Bicentenary, to further illustrate a post on the letter written by the Luddite George Mellor, whilst he was imprisoned in York Castle, awaiting trial....
View ArticleThe Second Annual Luddite Memorial Lecture – a brief review.
The second Luddite Memorial Lecture – a joint Huddersfield Local History Society/University of Huddersfield venture, was held at the University on 16 April 2015. It starred Prof Malcolm Chase of Leeds...
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