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Batley

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Batley, town (1991 pop. 45,582), Kirklees metropolitan district, N central England. Heavy woolens, shoddy, and other textiles are the chief manufactures; tiles, carpets, mattresses, felt, biscuits, and machinery are also produced. The Bagshaw Museum in Batley illustrates the history of clothmaking. Joseph Priestley Priestley, Joseph, 1733–1804, English theologian and scientist. He prepared for the Presbyterian ministry and served several churches in England as pastor but gradually rejected orthodox Calvinism and adopted Unitarian views.
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, the radical minister and scientist, attended Batley Grammar School.


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Maria Bottomley argued that female strike leaders in 1875 won wage increases and organized a weavers' union for men and women in Batley and Dewsbury near Huddersfield, Yorkshire.
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