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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. Eighteen people died and 400–700 were injured when cavalry charged into a crowd of around 60,000 people who had gathered to demand the reform of parliamentary ...
Aug 1, 2019 · The author, Carolyn O’Brien, has a definite talent for characterisation, and in Nancy Kay, she has developed a heroine who is spirited and sympathetic with a strong sense of purpose. The bond between Nancy and her sensitive son, Walter, shows itself touchingly on the page.
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Peterloo: Witnesses to a Massacre , by Polyp, Eva Schlunke and Robert Poole, New Internationalist, RRP£11.99, 128 pages. Ballads and Songs of Peterloo , edited by Alison Morgan, Manchester UP ...
29th October, 2018. Waterloo to Peterloo: The tragic story of John Lees. When author Colin Brown heard that Mike Leigh was directing a new film on the massacre at Peterloo, he wanted to send a copy of his book Scum of the Earth: What Happened to the Real British Heroes of Waterloo , which contains a chapter on the outrage of 1819, to the ...
Oct 20, 2018 · 20 October 2018. By Paul Burnell,BBC News. Simon Mein. Mike Leigh's Peterloo retells the story of the peaceful protest that turned into a massacre. In 1819, a troop of sabre-wielding cavalrymen ...
5 days ago · 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.
Nov 2, 2018 · November 2, 2018 11:00 AM EDT. Warning: Contains spoilers for the movie Peterloo. On a warm day in August of 1819, 60,000 English people descended on St. Peter’s Fields, a town square in the ...
