Wednesday 10 August 2011

Luddite Bicentenary - BBC Video

This year marks 200 years since of the start of the Luddite uprising, a social movement where workers, fearing for their jobs, rioted and smashed up stocking frames.

The BBC's John Holmes has looked at what sparked the first frames to be broken in Arnold, Nottingham, in 1811.


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