Some documents held by the Society
Riots in Leeds:
1642-56 The Civil War
1735 and 1753 The turnpike riots
1735 A corn price riot
1800 Another corn price riot And there was yet another corn price riot in 1801.
1844 The Military riot
1842 The Chartist and Plug riots in Holbeck and Hunslet
1865 The Dripping Riot
1867 A Fenian riot
1890 The Gasworkers riot
1893 Morley miners’ riot
1908 The suffragette riot
1917 An anti-Jewish riot
1926 The General Strike
1936 The battle of Holbeck Moor
1975 Chapeltown riot
1981 Another Chapeltown riot
1987 Yet another Chapeltown riot
1980s Poll tax riots
2001 Harehills riot
20th century Leeds United riots
Other Documents
1786 A clothworkers petition.
1811-12 A Luddite anthem – the reference to Great Enoch is to a hammer that was used to smash machinery.
1820 Coffee from the Leeds Mercury for June 1820; whilst not about Leeds directly, it highlights one of the Radical tactics in avoiding paying taxes to support the Government, and was a widely adopted tactic.
1830s-40s James Watson – A Memoir…
1830s-40s Chartism among females
1838: The Northern Political Union
1839 An Easter Chartist meeting held in East Leeds
1840 The Total Abstinence CharterAssociation
1843 Chartists Election of Chartists to Leeds Corporation
1845 Election of Chartists in Leeds
1868 Trade Union branches in Leeds
1882 Trade Union branches in Leeds
1885 William Morris – The Manifesto of The Socialist League Signed by Tom Maguire
1918 Call for a Labour Party part of a series of articles looking at the early history of the socialist movement in Leeds, taken from the leeds Weekly Citizen
1988 A review by John Archer of Dulcie Yelland, 1907-1987: A Socialist of Our Times by Charles Yelland
Communism in Leeds
Fred Warburton was an active CP member in Leeds from before the GeneralStrike of 1926. We hold copies of some of his correspondence with Bill Moore of Sheffield
A Letter from Fred Warburton to Bill Moore
Account by Fred Warburton of the General Strike in Leeds
Partial autobiography of Fred Warburton, describing CP and union activity in Leeds until the time of the General Strike.
A short biography of JD Mack, a Leeds CP member
Graham Stevenson provides a host of other biographies, and similar materials