Walker, "Croppers," Costume of Yorkshire, 1814
 

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Compiled and arranged by Kevin Binfield

If you want to reproduce any of the documents accessible from the links below, please ask for permission; no part of the documents may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of kevin.binfield at murraystate.edu.  For complete information about these documents and nearly 200 others from the Midlands, Lancashire, Cheshire, Flintshire, and Yorkshire, including sources, format, more accurate texts (including excisions and intercalations), explanatory footnotes, contexts, and reception, please see Writings of the Luddites, ed. Kevin Binfield (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004).
 
Midlands Luddite Documents, 1811 to 1817, from Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, and Derbyshire

Northwestern Threatening Letter, "Mr Twist" to "Mssrs McConnell and Kennady"

Northwestern Luddite Poem, "The Tintwistle Weaver's Daughter"