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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.
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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 · Peterloo is a film about the 1819 Peterloo Massacre, when British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester. The film features Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Neil Bell and other actors, and was released 200 years after the event.
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- Mike Leigh
- 2019-04-05
Jan 20, 2021 · Learn about the 1819 massacre of peaceful protesters in Manchester, England, that sparked the reform movement and challenged the corrupt parliamentary system. Find out how the government, the economy and the Corn Laws contributed to the tragedy and its aftermath.
Jul 24, 2018 · Internationally acclaimed and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mike Leigh portrays one of the bloodiest episodes in British history, the infamous Peterloo Massacre of 1819, where government-backed ...
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The name Peterloo first appeared in a local Manchester newspaper a few days after the massacre. The name was intended to mock the soldiers who attacked and killed unarmed civilians, comparing them with the heroes that had recently fought and returned from the battlefield of Waterloo.
