There was a rebellion in Northumberland and Durham in 1740, and an assault on Quaker corn dealers in 1756. Irregular rises in food prices provoked the Keelmen to riot in the port of Tyne in 1710 and tin miners to steal from granaries at Falmouth in 1727. Periodic uprisings relating to asset prices also occurred in other contexts in the century before Luddism. These struggles sometimes resulted in government suppression, via Parliamentary acts such as the Protection of Stocking Frames, etc. These new inventions produced textiles faster and cheaper because they could be operated by less-skilled, low-wage labourers.
In Lancashire, new cotton spinning technologies were met with violent resistance in 17. Organized action by stockingers had occurred at various times since 1675. The machine-breaking of the Luddites followed from previous outbreaks of sabotage in the English textile industry, especially in the hosiery and woolen trades. In the Welsh versions of Geoffrey's Historia, usually called Brut y Brenhinedd, he is called Lludd fab Beli, establishing the connection to the early mythological Lludd Llaw Eraint.
'Lud' or 'Ludd' ( Welsh: Lludd map Beli Mawr), according to Geoffrey of Monmouth's legendary History of the Kings of Britain and other medieval Welsh texts, was a Celtic King of ' The Islands of Britain' in pre- Roman times, who supposedly founded London and was buried at Ludgate. Different versions of the legends place his residence in Antsey, near Leicester, or Sherwood Forest like Robin Hood. The name often appears as Captain, General, or King Ludd. The movement utilised the eponym of Ned Ludd, an apocryphal apprentice who allegedly smashed two stocking frames in 1779 after being criticized and instructed to change his method. The name Luddite ( / ˈ l ʌ d aɪ t/) occurs in the movement's writings as early as 1811. Over time, the term has been used to refer to those opposed to industrialisation, automation, computerisation, or new technologies in general. Mill and factory owners took to shooting protesters and eventually the movement was suppressed with legal and military force, which included execution and penal transportation of accused and convicted Luddites. The Luddite movement began in Nottingham, England and spread to the North West and Yorkshire between 18. Members of the group referred to themselves as Luddites, self-described followers of " Ned Ludd", a legendary weaver whose name was used as a pseudonym in threatening letters to mill owners and government officials. They protested against manufacturers who used machines in "a fraudulent and deceitful manner" to replace the skilled labour of workers and drive down wages by producing inferior goods. The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers which opposed the use of certain types of cost-saving machinery, often by destroying the machines in clandestine raids.
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