The Rising of the Luddites: Chartists and Plug-Drawers

by Frank Peel, E. P. Thompson

First Published in 1968. Frank Peel’s The Risings of the Luddites went through at least three stages before it arrived at the present form. It commenced as a series of articles in the Heckmondwike Herald and Liver sedge Weekly Courier, running from 25th January to 6th August 1878.These were reprinted, with some re-arrangement and additions, in book-form in 1880.

370 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1880