1779 - Luddite movement
Textile workers rebel against the introduction of machinery which threatened their skilled craft - 1826, directed against power-looms at Harbottle’s Mill.
1779 - Luddite movement - Beswick Street
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2024 - (race) riots - Holiday Inn (0:53 min) • 1990 - Strange ways prison riot (0:56 min) • 1931 - The Battle of Bexley Square (0:55 min) • 1867 - First permanent women’s suffrage society - Jackson's Row (0:35 min) • 1903 - Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) - Free Trade Hall (0:53 min) • 2021 - The People’s Assembly march against the Conservative party conference MCCC (0:36 min) • 1819 - Peterloo Massacre - St Peter's Square (0:57 min) • 1913 - Suffragettes attack on Manchester Art Gallery (0:44 min) • 1988 - Section 28 protests - Albert Square (0:54 min) • 1821 - Manchester Guardian - Market Street (0:51 min) • 2020 - George Floyd protests - Piccadilly Gardens (0:46 min) • 1981 - Moss Side riots - Moss Side Police Station (0:56 min) • Whitworth Park • Pankhurst Centre (0:59 min)
