| Évènement : | Évènement à Manchester en avril 1812 |
|---|---|
| Identifiant : | HISCOD_14484 |
| Date : |
Année : 1812 Mois : Avril Jour : - Jour de la semaine : - |
| Localisation : |
Lieu historique : Manchester Lieu : Manchester Code commune : - Latitude : 53.4811087803479 Longitude : -2.24488849333542 |
| Unités administratives historiques : |
Entité politique : Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande Entité administrative : Lancashire Sous-entité administrative : - |
| Unités administratives : |
Pays : Angleterre Entité administrative : North West England Sous-entité administrative : Manchester |
| Caractéristiques : |
Typologie HiSCoD : Conflit lié au travail Typologie originale : Economic Nombre de participants : plusieurs milliersParticipation féminine : Indéterminé |
Description (langue originale) : -
Description (anglais) : Mass meeting with speeches. Broke into Exchange Building smashing furniture etc throwing it into street to set on fire. Breaking windows. Riot Act read, militia deployed. Visiting factories and houses in Stockport. Burning down private houses and destroying furniture (often of employers). Smashing windows, power looms and pieces being worked on. Targeting specific people. Headed by two men in women's clothes (‘wives of Ludd’). Entering shops and taking everything. Stoning coaches. Firing muskets into factories. Holding nocturnal meetings. Targeting factories which are ‘weaving by steam’. Trying to raise up bread riot and lower prices (Rochdale). Trying to bribe militiamen to join them. Woman about to give evidence against Luddites killed. Rescuing prisoners. Workers inside factories firing out and defending them. Murdering police who they tried to ‘twist in’. Inflamatory bills posted around the town. Leaders of mob giving orders - attacking ‘spies’. Many 1000s involved.
Sources primaires : The Times (London, England), Saturday, Mar 21, 1812, pg. 3, Issue 8557.
The Times (London, England), Saturday, Apr 11, 1812, pg. 3, Issue 8575 [2 articles].
‘Disturbances In The Country', The Times (London, England), Friday, Apr 17, 1812,
pg. 3, Issue 8580.
‘Disturbances In The Country', The Times (London, England), Thursday, Apr 23, 1812,
pg. 3, Issue 8585.
‘Court Circular’, The Times (London, England), Monday, Apr 27, 1812, pg. 3, Issue
8588.
‘The following extract of a letter from Manchester contains the latest intelligence
relative to the....‘The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Apr 28, 1812, pg. 3, Issue
8589.
‘Manchester, April 26’, The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Apr 29, 1812, pg.
3, Issue 8590.
‘DISTURBANCES IN THE COUNTRY. Extract of a letter from Manchester, dated the 27th’,
The Times (London, England), Thursday, Apr 30, 1812, pg. 3, Issue 8591.
‘Disturbances In The Country', The Times (London, England), Monday, May 04, 1812,
pg. 2, Issue 8594.
Manchester Mercury - Tuesday 21 April 1812. Manchester Mercury - Tuesday 28 April
1812. Manchester Mercury - Tuesday 12 May 1812. Liverpool Mercury - Friday 24 April
1812. Liverpool Mercury - Friday 17 July 1812. Wheeler's Manchester Chronicle 11/4/1812.
HO 40/1/2. HO 40/1/4. HO 40/1/6. HO 40/2/1. HO 40/2/2.
Bibliographie : Tiratelli, Matteo (2020). ‘The Changing Practice of Rioting: Revisiting Repertoire
Transitions in Britain, 1800-1939’. Mobilization: An International Quarterly, 25(2),
pp. 201-219 [10.17813/1086-671X-25-2-201].
Tiratelli, Matteo (2019). ‘Catalogue of riots in Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester,
1800-1939’. UK Data Service, V1 [10.5255/UKDA-SN-853781].
Auteur(s) : Matteo Tiratelli
Contributeur(s) : Cédric Chambru, Paul Maneuvrier-Hervieu
Date de création : 2022-01-14
Date d'édition : 2022-04-19