Published in 1968. Interest in the Luddite machine-breaking and food riots of 1812 which took place in the North and Midlands continues unabated.
Peel was a pioneer local historian, collecting oral accounts from participants and old inhabitants, as well as studying the printed evidence carefully. In the introduction to the new edition, E. P. Thomopson clams that Peel's general account of Luddism in that part of Yorkshire in which he was interested (around Huddersfield) has proved to be more accurate than the analysis of Luddism as a purely industrial phenomenon given by twentieth-century historians, including the Hammonds. This book will be useful to historians of working-class movements.
- ISBN10 0343566281
- ISBN13 9780343566289
- Publish Date 16 October 2018 (first published 1 December 1968)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Franklin Classics
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 178
- Language English