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The Peterloo Massacre took place at St Peter's Field, Manchester, Lancashire, England, on Monday 16 August 1819. It was the largest ever political gathering of working class people.
May 23, 2024 · Peterloo Massacre, the brutal dispersal by cavalry of a radical meeting held on St. Peter’s Fields in Manchester, England, on August 16, 1819.
The film Peterloo marks the 200th anniversary of the notorious Peterloo Massacre. On 16 August 1819, a crowd of some 60,000 people from Manchester and surrounding towns gathered in St Peter's Fields to demand Parliamentary reform and an extension of voting rights.
Apr 5, 2019 · An epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, in which a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter's Field in Manchester turned into one of the bloodiest, most notorious episodes in British history.
Jul 24, 2018 · Peterloo - Official Trailer | Amazon Studios. Internationally acclaimed and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mike Leigh portrays one of the bloodiest episodes in British history, the infamous Peterloo...
Five days after the massacre James Wroe of the Manchester Observer coined the word ‘Peterloo’, a bitter pun on an incident at Waterloo four years earlier when soldiers attacked unarmed civilians. His pun cost him a year’s liberty and his newspaper shut down.
Sep 6, 2018 · A famous orator, he arrives in Manchester to speak out for workers’ rights. But he is also vain and snobbish, proof that political allies are not always the heroes you want them to be. Hunt’s ...
