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In turn, this hit the cotton and woollen industry of the North of England particularly hard and affected the internal market as well. Unemployement rose and allied to the absence of imports, bad harvest in 1810 & 1811 increased the price of food, with the price of corn reaching a peak in 1812 that it never saw for over 100 years. Distress and starvation was all too common.|||The Luddite Bicentenary (March 10, 2011) "[http://ludditebicentenary.blogspot.com/2011/03/broad-context-of-luddism.html The Broad Context of Luddism]"}}
 
== Attacks ==
{{Cquote|It was early in the spring of 1811 that the phenomenon of Luddism first manifested itself in the Midlands, and, in particular, Nottinghamshire.
 
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The crowd then dispersed, but continued on to march to Arnold, north of Nottingham. Between dusk and dawn, no less than sixty stocking frames were broken by the mob, swarming around the town, entering the houses of unpopular stockingers, and breaking the frames of special, hated hosiers. The general populace so far from preventing, actually aided and abetted the disturbance, cheering on the frame-breakers and obstructing the authorities. It was necessary to call out the Dragoons the following morning in order to clear the town.|||The Luddite Bicentenary (March 11, 2011) "[http://ludditebicentenary.blogspot.com/2011/03/11th-march-1811-first-luddite-attack-at.html 11th March 1811: the first Luddite attack at Arnold, Nottinghamshire]"}}
 
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Mr H at Bulwell
 
Sr,
 
Sir if you do not pull don the Frames
or stop pay [in] Goods onely for work
extra work or m[ake] in Full fashon
my Companey will [vi]sit yr machines
for execution again[nst] [y]ou --
Mr Bolton the Forfeit--
I visitd him --
 
Ned Lu[d],
Kings [illegible]
Nottinghm-- Novembr 8, 1811
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A threatening letter, one of the earliest known in Nottinghamshire Luddism that mentions Ned Ludd. The target is probably a Hosier whose premises were attacked two days later. Reference to an attack on a "Mr Bolton" is most likely the target of the first frame-breaking that took place in March 1811.|||The Luddite Bicentenary (November 8, 2011) [http://ludditebicentenary.blogspot.com/2011/11/8th-november-1811-letter-from-ned-ludd.html 8th November 1811: Letter from Ned Ludd at Nottingham to Mr H at Bulwell]}}