Writings of the Luddites.  Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. 

Kevin Binfield

If you want to reproduce any of the documents accessible from the links below, please ask for permission.  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). 

M1 November 1811: Posted declaration by "Thos Death" to "Edward Ludd," Nottingham  

M2 8 November 1811: Threatening letter from "Ned Lud" at Nottingham to "Mr H" at "Bullwell" 

M5 16 December 1811: Proclamation, "Ned Lud Gives Notic, to the Coperation," Nottingham 

M11 January 1812: Song titled "General Ludd's Triumph," Nottingham

M22 22 February 1812: Letter from "Genl C Ludd" at "Shirewood Camp" to Spencer Perceval at London 

M26 11 March 1812: Poem by "A Poor Stockinger," titled "Poetry," Nottingham  

M28 17 March 1812: Posted paper inscribed to "Mr lud," Chesterfield  

M30 April 1812: Letter from "W Balfour, Captain of Division," at Nottingham to William Trentham at Nottingham  

M31 April 1812: Poem titled "Well Done, Ned Lud," Nottingham or Mansfield  

M35 Late spring or summer 1812: Song titled "Hunting a Loaf," Derbyshire  

M36 4 June 1812: Letter from "L.." at Nottingham to the prin