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The Luddites: Fear of Technology in 19th Century Britain

Conservative Historian

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Luddites, Machines, and Why They Resisted

Reframes Luddites as skilled artisans reacting to textile machinery and economic displacement, traces inventions like the spinning jenny, and explains movement origins, tactics, and the Ned Ludd myth.

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