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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 ...
- 16 August 1819
- 400–700
- 18
- St Peter's Field, Manchester, Lancashire, England
Aug 16, 2019 · What was the Peterloo massacre? On 16 August 1819, up to 60,000 working class people from the towns and villages of what is now Greater Manchester marched to St Peter’s Field in central ...
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.
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Peterloo is a 2018 British historical drama, written and directed by Mike Leigh, based on the Peterloo Massacre of 1819. The film was selected to be screened in the main competition section of the 75th Venice International Film Festival. [3] [4] The film received its UK premiere on 17 October 2018, as part of the BFI London Film Festival, at ...
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Apr 5, 2019 · IMDb page for Peterloo, a historical film directed by Mike Leigh and starring Rory Kinnear and Maxine Peake. The film depicts the events of the Peterloo Massacre, when British forces killed and injured protesters demanding political reform in Manchester in 1819.
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Jan 4, 2018 · The Peterloo massacre has become a battle honour for the left, its memory played out in a thousand mass meetings, in a direct line from August 1819 to Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign rallies today.
Oct 20, 2018 · William Hulton, a magistrate and landowner, gave the order to send cavalry against a peaceful pro-democracy protest in Manchester in 1819. The film Peterloo, directed by Mike Leigh, tells the story of the tragedy and its legacy.
