Food prices and unemployment drove Nottingham crowds to riot alongside the ongoing Luddite frame-breaking campaign in 1812. The convergence of food riot and industrial machine-breaking created a security crisis requiring thousands of troops and unprecedented peacetime military deployment in the Midlands.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
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