Manuscript letters concerning the Luddite riots in 1812

Item author: Sir Joseph Radcliffe of Milnsbridge
Item date: 1812
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 2,000
Item date acquired: 1993
Item institution: West Yorkshire Archive Service
Town/City: Leeds
County: West Yorkshire

Letters written between July and October 1812 when Radcliffe, as magistrate, was active in restoring public order after the machine breaking and violent robberies of the Luddite protestors in the Huddersfield area

Item Provenance
Kept at Rudding Park, Harrogate, dispersed some time before 1957