Editing Huddersfield (section)

===Industrial Revolution===
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Huddersfield was a centre of civil unrest during the [[Industrial Revolution]] in which Europe saw frequent wars during and after which, as to those most acutely affecting Britain, cloth trade slumped which could be compounded by local crops failure, many local [[Weaver (occupation)|weavers]] faced starvation and losing their livelihood due to the new, mechanised [[weaving shed]]s. [[Luddite]]s began destroying the mills, sheds and machinery at such times; one of the most notorious attacks was on Cartwright – a Huddersfield mill-owner who had a reputation for cruelty – and his Rawfolds Mill. [[Kirkpatrick Sale]] describes how an army platoon was stationed at Huddersfield to deal with these; at its peak, having about a thousand soldiers and ten thousand civilians. Luddites thus began to focus criminal damage on nearby towns and villages (less well-protected); their most damaging act was to destroy Foster's Mill at [[Horbury]] – a village about {{convert|10|mi|km|0|abbr=off}} east.<ref>{{cite book
 |title = Rebels Against the Future
 |year = 1995
 |last = Sale
 |first = Kirkpatrick
 |author-link = Kirkpatrick Sale
 |isbn = 0-201-62678-0
 |page = 120
 |publisher = Basic Books
 |url-access = registration
 |url = https://archive.org/details/rebelsagainstfut00kirk
 }}</ref> The government campaign that crushed the movement was provoked by a murder that took place in Huddersfield. William Horsfall, a mill-owner and a passionate prosecutor of Luddites, was killed in 1812.<ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRluddites.htm
 |title=The Luddites
 |publisher=Spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk
 |access-date=10 May 2016
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081015044804/http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRluddites.htm
 | archive-date=15 October 2008}}</ref> Although the movement faded out, Parliament began to increase welfare provision for those out of work, and introduce regulations to improve conditions in the mills.