Ned Ludd disguised as a woman. Ned Ludd, possibly born Edward Ludlam, allegedly the person from whom the Luddites took their Luddites were a group of English textile workers and weavers in the 19th century who destroyed weaving machinery as a form of protest. From The Martyrs of Tolpuddle, published 1934.

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