Riots in Leeds:<\/strong> Other Documents<\/strong> Communism in Leeds<\/strong> 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 … Continue reading “Documents”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1642-56 The Civil War<\/a>
\n1735 and 1753 The turnpike riots<\/a>
\n1735 A corn price riot<\/a>
\n1800 Another corn price riot<\/a> And there was yet another corn price riot in 1801.
\n1844 The Military riot<\/a>
\n1842 The Chartist and Plug riots in Holbeck and Hunslet<\/a>
\n1865 The Dripping Riot<\/a>
\n1867 A Fenian riot<\/a>
\n1890 The Gasworkers riot<\/a>
\n1893 Morley miners’ riot<\/a>
\n1908 The suffragette riot<\/a>
\n1917 An anti-Jewish riot<\/a>
\n1926 The General Strike<\/a>
\n1936 The battle of Holbeck Moor<\/a>
\n1975 Chapeltown riot<\/a>
\n1981 Another Chapeltown riot<\/a>
\n1987 Yet another Chapeltown riot <\/a>
\n1980s Poll tax riots<\/a>
\n2001 Harehills riot<\/a>
\n20th century Leeds United riots<\/a><\/p>\n
\n1786 A clothworkers petition<\/a>.
\n1811-12 A Luddite anthem<\/a> – the reference to Great Enoch is to a hammer that was used to smash machinery.
\n1820 Coffee<\/a> from the Leeds Mercury<\/em> 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.
\n1830s-40s James Watson – A Memoir… <\/a>
\n1830s-40s Chartism among females<\/a>
\n1838: The Northern Political Union<\/a>
\n1839 An Easter Chartist meeting held in East Leeds<\/a>
\n1840 The Total Abstinence CharterAssociation<\/a>
\n1843 Chartists <\/a> Election of Chartists to Leeds Corporation
\n1845 Election of Chartists in Leeds<\/a>
\n1868 Trade Union branches in Leeds<\/a>
\n1882 Trade Union branches in Leeds<\/a>
\n1885 William Morris – The Manifesto of The Socialist League<\/a> Signed by Tom Maguire
\n1918 Call for a Labour Party\u00a0<\/a> part of a series of articles looking at the early history of the socialist movement in Leeds, taken from the leeds Weekly Citizen<\/i>
\n1988 A review<\/a> by John Archer of Dulcie Yelland, 1907-1987: A Socialist of Our Times<\/a> by Charles Yelland<\/p>\n
\nFred 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<\/a> of Sheffield
\nA Letter<\/a> from Fred Warburton to Bill Moore
\nAccount<\/a> by Fred Warburton of the General Strike in Leeds
\nPartial autobiography<\/a> of Fred Warburton, describing CP and union activity in Leeds until the time of the General Strike.
\nA short biography of JD Mack<\/a>, a Leeds CP member
\nGraham Stevenson<\/a> provides a host of other biographies, and similar materials<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"