The Shiners: Framework-Knitting Households in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, 1840-1890

Rural Luddism and the makeshift economy of the Nottinghamshire framework knitters

“…Ties of kinship also linked the villages: it was during a visit to his parents' home in Basford that the Arnold Luddite William Burton was enlisted by James Towle's brother for the famous Loughborough job on 28 June 1816 when Nottinghamshire Luddites, led by Towle, attacked Heathcote and Bodin's Mill. 82 Framework knitters were 'not bound by their insular village lives' 83. …”