Here's what to know about the true story of the Peterloo Massacre, before you watch Mike Leigh's new Amazon Prime film, Peterloo.

Commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre has revealed that the social tensions that gave rise to that critical event of British history remain unresolved. On August 16, 1819 ...

The massacre elicited an immediate and furious response from the working class and sections of middle-class radicals, and an astonishing outpouring of work from the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

The climactic massacre from “ Peterloo ” may well be the crowning achievement of the nearly three-decade collaboration between director Mike Leigh and cinematographer Dick Pope.

Peterloo Massacre descendants gather 200 years on from bloody battle for the vote EXCLUSIVE: Eighteen people were killed and hundreds more injured during the Peterloo Massacre, a landmark moment ...

PETERLOO tells the true story of the massacre of innocent protestors in Manchester in 1819. Can you watch the movie online and is it legal?

PETERLOO is one of the most radical events of British history, in which the people of the North rallied to demand parliamentary sovereignty. This is the true story of the Peterloo massacre.

PETERLOO featuring Maxine Peake as Nellie (Simon Mein/Courtesy of Amazon Studios) Shelley wrote a poem called "The Masque of Anarchy" a couple of years after the Peterloo Massacre.

A Radio Four discussion by Melvyn Bragg and three historians about the Peterloo Massacre. The discussions attempts to show that bloody day in August 1819 in the context of growing social and political ...

Mike Leigh’s period piece about the 1819 Peterloo Massacre is a powerful portrait of a struggle for representation.

When Mike Leigh first revealed in 2015 that he was developing a project about the Peterloo Massacre, he didn’t have to wait long until Maxine Peake got in touch. “She wrote to me as soon as I ...