Liversedge "Luddites"
A statue has been unveiled at Liversedge in West Yorkshire to commemorate the two hundredth anniversary of a Luddite uprising at a local mill.
A statue's been unveiled today to mark the two hundredth anniversary of a Luddite uprising at Liversedge in West Yorkshire.
The Luddite's were workers who smashed equipment in nineteenth century mills because mechanisation was putting them out of work.
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