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Luddites

A delightful trend begun by Ned Lud in Leicestershire at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. When the introduction of a stocking frame threatened to take his job from him old Lud smashed it to bits and exhorted his pals to do the same.

Luddism flourished in Blighty from 1811-16.

Though similar in result to certain occasions when the Chaps may have smashed machinery in their own brief working tenures this is not thought to be Luddism per se.

More a case of lunching rather too well.