Part of Ludds on Tour, a series of blogs by Jack Dean looking at how the histories of places where Jeremiah is touring relate to the events of the show. William Cobbett was a complicated man, even by the standards of his day. Born in Farnham but settling in Botley in 1805, he was a wealthy […]
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Ludds On Tour #4: Onion-gate (Ipswich, 1816)
Part of Ludds on Tour, a series of blogs by Jack Dean looking at how the histories of towns where Jeremiah’s touring relate to the events of the show. The South East saw plenty of machinery-smashing in the 1800s, albeit of different contraptions than in the North. The threshing machine, invented in 1786, removed the seeds […]
Ludds On Tour #3: Twisting In at the Crispin Inn (Halifax, 1813)
Part of Ludds on Tour, a series of blogs by Jack Dean looking at how historical events in towns where Jeremiah is touring relate to the story of the show. Although the Luddite Rebellion very quickly prompted the passing of the Frame-Breaking Act, which made the destruction of machinery a hangable offence, no-one was ever actually […]
Ludds On Tour #2: Riots Uptown (Sheffield, 1812)
Part of Ludds on Tour, a series of blogs by Jack Dean looking at how the histories of towns where Jeremiah is touring relate to the events of the show. Never get in between a Yorkshireman and his stomach, especially not in the waking nightmare and the BBC’sfourth worst year in British History that was the year […]
Ludds On Tour #1: The Mother Of All Lock-ins (London, 1817)
Ludds On Tour #1: The Mother Of All Lock-ins (London, 1817) Part of Ludds on Tour, a series of blogs by Jack Dean looking at how the histories of the places where Jeremiah is touring relate to the events of the show. As an on-and-off member of political parties and groups over the last few years, […]
5 Things You May Not Know About The Luddites
Luddites. Be honest. What comes to mind when you read that word? Backwards, parochial sillies from the Days of Yore who smashed up machinery because they couldn’t handle the inevitable march of progress? Or maybe you think of the modern application of the term, the sort of faux-lo-fi hippies who complain “Gosh, GPS means no-one […]
Here’s What You Could’ve Won #3: An Airship Fleet
[Part of the Here’s What You Could Have Won series, where I take issues from the news and make whimsical fag-packet calculations of things that the £205 billion due to be spent on replacing the Trident programme of nuclear submarines could buy, in preparation for the tour of my show Nuketown] Guys. Bear with me. […]
Here’s What You Could Have Won #2: Nationalising Facebook
[Part of the Here’s What You Could Have Won series, where I take issues from the news and make whimsical fag-packet calculations of things that the £205 billion due to be spent on replacing the Trident programme of nuclear submarines could buy, in preparation for the tour of my show Nuketown] Ah Facebook. Where else […]
Here’s What You Could Have Won #1: A Thousand Years of Grit
[Part of the Here’s What You Could Have Won series, where I take issues from the news and make whimsical fag-packet calculations of things that the £205 billion due to be spent on replacing the Trident programme of nuclear submarines could buy, in preparation for the tour of my show Nuketown] I write this in […]
Nuketown Villages #6: “Nietzcheville”
[These blogs describe and document the villages made by audiences as part of my new project Nuketown.] Name: “Nietzcheville” Made by: Audience at performance at Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter (35 people) When: 23/09/2016 Buildings featured (from left to right, non Exhaustive List): DJ-Tron 5000 the Mech DJ, the Gateway, the Community Centre, the Anti-Bungalow, the Market, the Ziggurat of […]