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This brand-new show commemorates the anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre, taking place in Manchester on 16th August at the ...
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Paul Fitzgerald, who organised the event, said: "The Peterloo massacre was the turning point in the story of democracy for Manchester, the UK, and also the rest of the world. "It was an extraordinary ...
Tulsa Massacre Was a ‘Coordinated, Military-Style Attack,’ Federal Report Says The Justice Department’s conclusion follows an investigation of the 1921 atrocity in Oklahoma in which up to ...
A Peterloo Massacre campaign group has hit out over plans to build a soaring skyscraper near the Britons Protection pub, calling the proposals 'a tower too far' for Manchester city centre. They ...
The Peterloo Massacre, as depicted by George Cruikshank, is probably more familiar to many people in Scotland than the Radical War of 1820 (Picture: Spencer Arnold Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty ...
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.
women icons With their bravery at Peterloo massacre, British women changed English politics forever In 1819, a peaceful rally for political reform in Manchester turned violent after police ...
The Peterloo massacre was one of the worst atrocities committed on British soil, but across the empire there were many such acts.
PETERLOO Massacre took place 200 years ago today. What happened and how accurate is Mike Leigh’s film?
The name of the massacre aimed to mock the British victory at Waterloo that had happened four years earlier. Peterloo is an important reminder that we cannot take liberalism and democracy for granted.