This picture is the ruins of a building–industrial?—military?—after all it is northern England or southern Scotland—taken from my train window and given the fact there is no indication where one ends and another begins along the road and this is a train–not a tour I’m sorry to say…so heaven knows…but the mystery and the size of it makes my mind wander.
One of the things that I use my blog for is to get you—my readers–to find things they’re interested enough in actually spend some time in finding out about them. While I may some day find out what this building is I decide today todo something a bit easier as I don’t have all day to get this blog done….so right after my
Survival for Droughtlander Suggestions I’ll return to that.
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Of course, machine breaking, food riots and threats were neither unique nor original to the Luddite movement.”
This and all other quotes today are from
WRITINGS OF THE LUDDITES
By Kevin Benfield
Make Murtagh your point of interest and find all things about him—books and otherwise…then look up the actor that plays him and do the same…research etc—present it to me & I’ll feature it under your credit.
Or maybe Frank–Black Jack—no Frank—no….well you know would be more challenging: http://zap2it.com/2016/06/tobias-menzies-outlander-game-of-thrones-catastrophe/
then there’s the obvious
http://www.dianagabaldon.com/books/outlander-series/
and finally
you could replay (for real) all the sex scenes with your significant other
http://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/Outlander-Sex-Scenes-41814595#photo-41814595
“….chart the movement from its 1811 origins among Textile Workers in Nottinghamshire….”
Oh and I failed to give a name for Bryon’s home in Nottingham yesterday–it’s:
Newstead Abbey Historic House and Gardens https://www.artfund.org/what-to-see/museums-and-galleries/newstead-abbey-historic-house-and-gardens
check it out at the website listed.
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“Then its spred into Derbyshire, Cheshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire…”
While going through things I brought back from the UK I found this picture being used as an ad for the Galleries of Justice Museum www.galleriesofjustice.org.uk (featured previously on one of my days in Nottingham)
The Title of the exhibit (which is no longer there) was
THE LUDDITES AND THE TRAIL OF DANIEL DIGGLE.
It encourage you to learn the fascinating history of the Luddites
as well mentioning
Daniel Diggle who was tried and executed at the Shire Hall for attempted murder duing the Luddite protests.
and featured a man (as seen above in a dress over his regular clothes as well as a hat which appeared to also be less than man-wear.
so I said OK doing a bit of research on this for my blog would fit right into research for fun and knowledge
as well as being weird enough to appeal to me and probably more than a few of my readers…
so away we go.
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“There is very little evidence of persons who were not framework knitters participating in any attacks on the wide stocking frames,,,,”
First Luddities:
according to History.com
“its origins date back to a 19th century labor movement that railed against the economic fallout of the Industrial Revolution. The original Luddites were British weavers and textile workers who objected to the increased use of automated looms and knitting frames.”
They weren’t just upset with the production vales etc but:
“…were trained artisans who had spent years learning their craft, and they feared that unskilled machine operators were robbing them of their livelihood. ”
Sounds all too familiar doesn’t it…you don’t have to be in 18th century England to appreciate that.
But now it gets a bit weirder:
“They called themselves “Luddites” after Ned Ludd, a young apprentice who was rumored to have wrecked a textile apparatus in the late-18th century.”
and now I understand why they’re doing this in Nottingham.:
There’s no evidence Ludd actually existed—like Robin Hood, he was said to reside in Sherwood Forest—but he eventually became the mythical leader of the movement.
In case you’ve forgotten Robin Hood was (at the moment believed to be mythical or a combination of real people condensed into one) the abiding legend that was peculiar (originally) to Nottingham….Apparently Ludd didn’t catch on so much, but he still appears to be one of the city’s (pseudo?) sons.
http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/who-were-the-luddites
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“In…Yorkshire, most Luddites were cloth dressers in the woolen industry, also called croppers….”
In 1812 Parliament introduced the death penalty for anyone found guilty of breaking a frame. http://cms.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/home/leisure/archives/exhibitions/africancaribbeanheritage/ georgeafricanus/luddites.htm
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