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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Liberty or Death</strong><br>
<strong>Radicals, Republicans and Luddites</strong><br>
<strong>1793 to 1823</strong><br>
<strong>Alan Brooke and Lesley Kipling</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Reviews of the book can be found at: <a
href="https://undergroundhistories.wordpress.com/liberty-or-death-reviews/"
rel="nofollow">https://undergroundhistories.wordpress.com/liberty-or-death-reviews/</a></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The new edition of Liberty or Death costs £8.00 (£9.95 including
UK p&p), and can be ordered via the link :</p>
<p><a href="http://www.huddersfieldhistory.org.uk/publications/"
rel="nofollow">http://www.huddersfieldhistory.org.uk/publications/</a></p>
<p>or by post from: HLHS, 24 Sunnybank Rd, Huddersfield HD3 3DE.
Cheques payable to: Huddersfield Local History Society.</p>
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