Richard Oastler
1789 – 1861
64 works on record
Works

Vicarial Tithes, Halifax: A True Statement of Facts and Incidents
1827

The Fleet Papers

A serious address to the millowners, manufacturers and cloth-dressers of Leeds

Free trade "not proven," in seven letters to the people of England

The Fleet papers;

Richard Oastler: king of factory children

Damnation! Eternal damnation to the fiend-begotten 'coarser-food', new Poor ..
A speech delivered by Richard Oastler at a meeting held in the Manor Court-Room, Manchester on Wednesday evening, April 27th, 1833, to consider of the propriety of petitioning the legislature to pass the Ten Hours Factories' Regulation Bill, without waiting for the report of that 'Mockery of Inquiry', the Mill-owners Commission
Vicarial tithes, Halifax
Factory legislation
Eight letters to the Duke of Wellington
Public protest against the Factory Commission
Speech delivered in the Primitive Methodist Chapel, Bowling-Lane, Bradford, on Monday the fourteenth of January, 1833 at a meeting of delegates in support of the ten hours bill
Speech delivered at a public meeting held in the Market Place, Huddersfield on Tuesday evening June 18, 1833, to petition the House of Commons against the report of the Factory Commissioners being received, and also to pray that the ten hour factory bill may pass
Mr. Oastler's reply to Mr. Gisborne, and account of this visit to Manchester
A letter to those sleek, pious, holy and devout dissenters, Messrs. get-all, keep-all, grasp-all, scrape-all, whip-all, gull-all, cheat-all, cant-all, work-all, sneak-all, lie-well, swear-well, and company, the shareholders in the Bradford Observer, in answer to their attack on Richard Oastler, in that paper of July 17, 1834
A Papal bull, from Pope Gregory XVI, to King Joseph, the deluder, companion of the Society of the Jesuits ... the wood-be-Radical [sic], and sometime a pensioner on the half-pay list of the King of England
Slavery in Yorkshire
A speech delivered by Richard Oastler, at a meeting held in the Manor Court-Room, Manchester
The rejected letter
The Secret inquisition to perpetuate child murder
A letter to Mr. Holland Hoole, in reply to his Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Althorp ... in defense of the cotton factories of Lancashire
Infant slavery
The pearking, or (if you will have it so) the biter bit
The right of the poor to liberty and life
The factory question
Three hundred to one!
Damnation! eternal damnation to the fiend-begotten, "Coarser food" new poor law
A twopenny "extreme unction," administered to King Joseph
A few words to the friends and enemies of trades' unions
A letter to the Bishop of Exeter
Mr. Oastler's speech at Huddersfield, on his return from London
To the electors of the North Riding of the Couty of York
A letter to those millowners who continue to oppose the Ten hours bill, and who impudently dare to break the present Factories act ...
A well seasoned Christmas-pie for "The Great Liar of the North," prepared, cooked, baked and presented by R. Oastler
Facts and plain words on every-day subjects, comprised in two speeches delivered at Wakefield on the day of the first election for the West-Riding of Yorkshire, December 20, 1832
Exposition of the factory system
A penny bellowing and goring, published for the especial benefit of the deluded followers of King Joseph
Convocation
Damnation
A Report of the proceedings and speeches of a public meeting, held in ... Oldham on ... March 14th, 1835, to petition the House of Commons, to limit the period of working in cotton and other mills, to ten hours per day, and eight on Saturdays
A letter on the horrors of white slavery
Damnation!
A serious address to the millowners, manufacturers, and cloth-dressers of Leeds, who have organized themselves into a trades' union
A letter to the working classes, and H.G. Ward, Esq
The factory question and the factory agitation
To the editor of the Argus
Letter to W.B. Ferrand, Esq. M.P. and to Mr. Richard Oastler, Factory Child's King" ...
The factory system
Reply to R. Oastler
Brougham versus Brougham, on the new poor law
Operatives of Leeds!
A letter to the editor of the "Argus and Demagogue," on the validity of Sir John Ramsden's title to the sums of money he claims for canal dues and on other subjects
Public meeting and dinner to John Fielden, Esq. M.P. and other gentlemen on Thursday, December 26th, 1833 ....
Tyranny's last shift!!
Free trade "not proven"
A letter to Mr. Holland Hoole
Representation of Huddersfield
Speech delivered at a public meeting held in ... Huddersfield on ... June 18, 1833, to petition the House of Commons against the report of the Factory Commissioners being received, and also to pray that the Ten hour factory bill may pass
Eight letters to the Duke of Wellington, a petition to the House of Commons, and a letter to the editor of the Agricultural and Industrial magazine
Richard Oastler's letter to the nobility, clergy, farmers, and shopkeepers of the county of Nottingham
Yorkshire slavery
Mr. Oastler's three letters to Mr. Hetherington
A letter to those sleek, pious, holy and devout dissenters, Messrs. get-all, keep-all, grasp-all, scrape-all, whip-all, gull-all, cheat-all, cant-all, work-all, sneak-all, lie-well, swear-well, scratch-em and company, the shareholders in the Bradford Observer, in answer to their attack on Richard Oastler, in that paper of July 17, 1834