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*Liberty or Death*
*Radicals, Republicans and Luddites*
*1793 to 1823*
*Alan Brooke and Lesley Kipling*

Over the last two hundred years many stories have been told about the 
Luddites and histories have been written about the events of 1812 and 
1813 around Huddersfield and the Spen Valley. The Luddites are a part of 
the identity of this part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. However, it 
was not until 1963 when E. P. Thompson, then a WEA lecturer living in 
Halifax, published his Making of the English Working Class that anyone 
had attempted properly to set the Luddites in the context of their 
times. That work was widely recognised as articulating a new and more 
radical view of the Luddite events and of the people caught up in them.

In 1993, thirty years after Thompson’s seminal work, Alan Brooke and 
Lesley Kipling took up the challenge to extend his work beyond what he 
had been able to achieve. Using new evidence and looking more thoroughly 
at existing accounts they produced a history which in its own way has 
become a classic. Liberty or Death quickly and very firmly established 
itself as an important addition to the body of scholarship which 
underlies Luddite studies. Copies of that first edition have become 
collectors’ items. Now Alan and Lesley, drawing on their continuing 
research, have produced a revised and extended manuscript.

Reviews of the book can be found at: 
https://undergroundhistories.wordpress.com/liberty-or-death-reviews/

The Huddersfield Local History Society is proud to be able publish a 
special Luddite bi-centenary edition of this classic work of our local 
history. In doing this we would like to express our appreciation for the 
generous support of The Lipman-Miliband Trust.

The new edition of Liberty or Death costs £8.00 (£9.95 including UK 
p&p), and can be ordered via the link :

http://www.huddersfieldhistory.org.uk/publications/

or by post from: HLHS, 24 Sunnybank Rd, Huddersfield HD3 3DE. Cheques 
payable to: Huddersfield Local History Society.

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