Download or read book The Rising of the Luddites written by Frank Peel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1968. Frank Peel’s The Risings of the Luddites went through at least three stages before it arrived at the present form. It commenced as a series of articles in the Heckmondwike Herald and Liver sedge Weekly Courier, running from 25th January to 6th August 1878.These were reprinted, with some re-arrangement and additions, in book-form in 1880.