Cato Street, off the Edgware Road near Marble Arch, hinted at the existence of a revolutionary underground network, which has ...
"the last living of that gallant band of Failsworth Reformers who were present at that memorable but disgraceful massacre which took place at Peterloo in 1819". Sixty-five years before the photo ...
Public opinion was outraged by what became known as the 'Peterloo Massacre' and led to the first reform of Parliament in 1832. The handkerchief shows the attack by the military and is typical of ...
On 16 August 1819 over 50,000 people gathered at St Peter's Field in Manchester to protest the right to vote, by the end of the day what became known as the Peterloo Massacre, would lead to the ...
The new film from Mike Leigh proves the 81 year-old is still a master of British realist cinema. The opening scene of Mike ...
ON SUNDAY I, along with hundreds from around the Greater Manchester area, marched in commemoration of those who were injured and killed at what is now known as the Peterloo Massacre. I walked nine ...
Peterloo stars Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, and David Moorst in a large ensemble cast that tells the real-life story of the Peterloo protests in 1819 for electoral reform and how armed government ...
The massacre and the tension leading up to it ... Politicized language gives Peterloo epic stature — it’s a brilliant filmmaker’s version of the Tower of Babel noise in Armando Iannucci ...
While Saturday’s demonstration thankfully did not lead to any deaths, the suppression of protest rights was disturbingly reminiscent of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre. Police actions on Saturday ...