Excerpt from The Risings of the Luddites: Chartists and Plugdrawers The Heckmondwike Antiquarian Society hav ing recommended its members to work up local history as much as possible, I thought something new might be said about the Luddites, and therefore choose it as one of my themes. In collecting material for this subject from the few people I could find in the locality who Were old enough to know anything about it from personal experience, I was struck with the fact that as my informants were all very near the end of their pilgrimage much information respecting the Luddite movement would soon be lost for ever, unless someone took the pains to collect and preserve it. I determined therefore to extend the area of my Operations considerably, and eventually saw personally almost everyone then living who were likely to be able to add to my stock of knowledge -respecting the Luddites and their doings. The information thus collected was published in the Heckmondwuce. Herald. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.

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