Luddites' Violent Crusades Against Technology | After Dark
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Watch this full episode of After Dark with Anthony Delaney and Maddy Pelling, where they chat about Ned Ludd, the fires, and the violence exerted during the Industrial Revolution in England.
Would you have joined the OG Luddites? In 1811 and 1812 across the midlands and north of England which were the Silicon Valley of the day, Luddites smashed machines. They would not stop, not even at murder, in order to fight technology that was tearing down their way of life. Maddy tells Anthony the story this week.
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