The Luddites Bike Tour

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Saturday 11 June | 2022 | 2pm - 5pm
Starts at: Zig Zag HQ, Nottingham, NG3 2DG
Ends at: Frame Breakers Pub, Ruddington, NG11 6DT
£15 (including museum entry)

The Luddites story is commonly told as a militant group of early C19 workers who went around smashing up machinery because of the threat posed by technology to their jobs. Yet the story is far more complicated than that; the workers were articulate and made reasonable demands, as described by E.P. Thompson in his seminal work: 'The Making of the English Working Class'. This tour will seek to make sense of Thompson's writings through the historic environment, taking in domestic industry buildings along the way to the Ruddington Framework Knitters Museum (entry included).

Highlights: The Domestic Lace Industry; Framework Knitting Workshops; Slum Housing; Vernacular Villages; Frame Breaking; Protest, Anarchy and Revolution (almost).

Info:
Date: Saturday 11 June
Time: 14:00 – 17:00
Start: Zig Zag HQ, Nottingham, NG3 2DG
Finish: Frame Breakers Pub, Ruddington, NG11 6DT
Duration: 5 hours
Distance: 8 miles
Difficulty: easy
Price: £15 including museum entry