Suggested reading

Primary sources

Unprinted: Papers of the 4th Duke of Newcastle, NeC 4 667-8,778 Manuscripts and Special Collections, The University of Nottingham
Printed: Reports to Home Office on Luddite disturbances Local Studies Library, Nottinghamshire County Libraries
Printed: Luddite broadsheets Local Studies Library, Nottinghamshire County Libraries
Newspapers: Nottingham Journal. Nottingham Review Nottingham University

J. R. M. Butler The passing of the great Reform bill. (1914) London
F. Darvall Popular disturbances and public order in Regency England.
R. J. White Waterloo to Peterloo. (1957)
T. Bailey Annals of Nottinghamshire vol. iv. (1855) London
J. Blackner The history of Nottingham (1815) Nottingham
J. D. Chambers Modern Nottingham in the making (1945) Nottingham
J. D. Chambers Nottinghamshire in the eighteenth century (1932) London
Roy A. Church Economic and Social Change in A Midland Town: Victorian Nottingham 1815-1900 (1966)
W. Felkin A history of the machine-wrought hosiery and lace manufacturers (1867) (edition by S. D. Chapman, 1971)
D. Fraser 'The Nottingham Press, 1800-1850', Transactions of the Thoroton Society. vol. LXVII 1963 pp. 46-66
D. Gray Nottingham, settlement to city (1953) Nottingham
W. Rowarth Observations on the administration of the new Poor Law in Nottingham (1841)
M. I. Thomis Old Nottingham (1968)
M. I. Thomis Politics and Society in Nottingham (1969)
M. I. Thomis Luddism in Nottingham (1972)
M. I. Thomis 'Nottingham and Reform Bill Riots of 1831: New Perspectives', Transactions of the Thoroton Society. vol. LIX 1973 pp.82-103
A. C. Wood A history of Nottinghamshire. Nottingham (1948)
A. C. Wood 'Nottingham, 1835-1865'. [(i) Borough (ii) Chartism (iii) Electoral History], Transactions of the Thoroton Society. vol. LIX 1956 pp. 1-83

B Bailey The Luddite Rebellion (1998)
Church, R A and Chapman, S D 'Gravener Henson and the Making of the English Working Class', E L Jones and G E Mingay (eds), Land, Labour and Population in the Industrial Revolution 1967 pp. 131-61
Dinwiddy, J R 'Luddism and politics in the northern counties' (1979), Radicalism and Reform in Britain, 1780-1850 1992
Thomis, M I 'Gravener Henson: The Man and the Myth', Transactions of the Thoroton Society 75 1971 91-97
Thomis, M I 'Luddism in Nottinghamshire', Thoroton Society Record Series, 26 1972
Thomis, M I The Luddites (1970)
Thomis, M I Politics and Society in Nottingham (1969)
Thompson, E P The Making of the English Working Class (1963)
C Weir 'The Nottinghamshire Luddites: "Men meagre with famine, sullen with despair"', Local Historian, 28 1998 1

Beckett, J V 'Parliament and the Localities: the Borough of Nottingham', Parliamentary History, 20 1998
Beckett, J V 'The Nottingham Reform Bill Riots of 1831', Clyve Jones, Philip Salmon and Richard W Davis (editors), Partisan Politics, Principle and Reform in Parliament and the Constituencies, 1689-1880 2005 pp. 114-38 Edinburgh
Gaunt, R A 'Neighbours from Hell. The Fourth Duke of Newcastle and the People of Nottingham in the early Nineteenth Century', Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 104 2000 99-111
Thomis, M I 'Nottingham and Reform Bill Riots of 1831: New Perspectives', Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 77 1973
Wigley, J 'Derby and Derbyshire during the Great Reform Bill Crisis, 1830-32', Derbyshire Archaeological Journal, 101 1981

Church, R A Economic and Social Change in a Midland Town (1966)
Epstein, J and Thompson, D The Chartist Experience: Studies in Working-Class Radicalism and Culture 1830-1860 (1982)
Griffin, C P 'Chartism and opposition to the New Poor Law in Notts', Midland History, 2 1974
Wood, A C 'Nottingham 1835-1865', Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 59 1955
Wyncoll, P Nottingham Chartism (1966)

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