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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, in English history, the brutal dispersal by cavalry of a radical meeting held on St. Peter’s Fields in Manchester on August 16, 1819. The “massacre” (likened to Waterloo) attests to the profound fears of the privileged classes of the imminence of violent Jacobin revolution in England in the years after the Napoleonic Wars.
Jan 20, 2021 · Two hundred years ago, on Monday 16 August 1819, a peaceful gathering in Manchester escalated into an indiscriminate slaughter of innocent civilians. How did this event, known as the ‘Peterloo Massacre’, spin so quickly and wildly out of control? Rotten Boroughs and Political Corruption.
Aug 16, 2022 · On 16 August 1819, thousands of people gathered in Manchester to take part in a peaceful protest to ask Parliament for a fairer political system and more voting rights. But the day ended in...
Aug 7, 2023 · On 16 August 1819 60,000 people congregated in St Peter’s Field in Manchester, with demands for the right to vote, freedom from oppression, and justice. We asked PHM’s Researcher Dr Shirin Hirsch to explain how, despite its peaceful beginning, this was a day that would end with a bloody outcome.
In the space of 20 minutes, over 600 people had been injured and as many as 20 people, including women and children, were killed at close quarters. Following a violent arrest, Henry Hunt was tried, convicted of seditious conspiracy and sent to prison for two years.
May 21, 2018 · Peterloo Massacre (August 16, 1819) Violent suppression of a political protest in Manchester, nw England. A large crowd, demonstrating for reform of Parliament, was dispersed by soldiers. Eleven people were killed and 500 injured.
Sep 1, 2021 · The Peterloo Massacre had both immediate and long-term consequences for British politics, shaping the role of the media and radical print journalism in spreading ideas, the visibility of women in the fight for suffrage, and conversations about who controls historical narratives that continue today.
The Peterloo Massacre: Rebellion, bloodshed, and the fight for democracy. Mr Hunt arrived at around one in the afternoon and climbed aboard a hustings made from two wagons lashed together. Already on St. Peter’s Field in central Manchester were hundreds of special constables armed with wooden truncheons.
Peterloo massacre 1819. An engraving showing the forcible dispersal of a reform meeting in St Peter’s Field, Manchester, 16 August 1819, (Catalogue ref: MPI 1/134/19)
