The Luddites
CYCLING TOUR
Date: Saturday 11 June
Time: 12:30 – 16:00
Start: Zig Zag, Nottingham, NG3 2DG
Finish: Frame Breakers Pub, Ruddington, NG11 6DT
Duration: 3.5 hours
Distance: 8 miles
Difficulty: easy/medium
Highlights: The Domestic Lace Industry; Framework Knitting Workshops; Slum Housing; Vernacular Villages; Frame Breaking; Protest, Anarchy and Revolution (almost).
The Luddites story is commonly told as a militant group of early C19 workers who went around smashing up machinery because of the threat posed by technology to their jobs. Yet the story is far more complicated than that; the workers were articulate and made reasonable demands, as described by E.P. Thompson in his seminal work: ‘The Making of the English Working Class’. This tour will seek to make sense of Thompson’s writings through the historic environment, taking in domestic industry buildings along the way to the Ruddington Framework Knitters Museum (entry included).
CYCLING TOUR
Date: Saturday 11 June
Time: 12:30 – 16:00
Start: Zig Zag, Nottingham, NG3 2DG
Finish: Frame Breakers Pub, Ruddington, NG11 6DT
Duration: 3.5 hours
Distance: 8 miles
Difficulty: easy/medium
Highlights: The Domestic Lace Industry; Framework Knitting Workshops; Slum Housing; Vernacular Villages; Frame Breaking; Protest, Anarchy and Revolution (almost).
The Luddites story is commonly told as a militant group of early C19 workers who went around smashing up machinery because of the threat posed by technology to their jobs. Yet the story is far more complicated than that; the workers were articulate and made reasonable demands, as described by E.P. Thompson in his seminal work: ‘The Making of the English Working Class’. This tour will seek to make sense of Thompson’s writings through the historic environment, taking in domestic industry buildings along the way to the Ruddington Framework Knitters Museum (entry included).
CYCLING TOUR
Date: Saturday 11 June
Time: 12:30 – 16:00
Start: Zig Zag, Nottingham, NG3 2DG
Finish: Frame Breakers Pub, Ruddington, NG11 6DT
Duration: 3.5 hours
Distance: 8 miles
Difficulty: easy/medium
Highlights: The Domestic Lace Industry; Framework Knitting Workshops; Slum Housing; Vernacular Villages; Frame Breaking; Protest, Anarchy and Revolution (almost).
The Luddites story is commonly told as a militant group of early C19 workers who went around smashing up machinery because of the threat posed by technology to their jobs. Yet the story is far more complicated than that; the workers were articulate and made reasonable demands, as described by E.P. Thompson in his seminal work: ‘The Making of the English Working Class’. This tour will seek to make sense of Thompson’s writings through the historic environment, taking in domestic industry buildings along the way to the Ruddington Framework Knitters Museum (entry included).