The Peterloo Massacre began as a politic rally on August 16, 1819, in St. Peter’s Field, a city square in Manchester, England.

James Wroe, editor of the radical Manchester Observer, coined the name “Peterloo” shortly after the massacre—in an ironical echo of the Battle of Waterloo, where a British-led allied army ...

This year marks the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre, a critical event in British history. On August 16, 1819, a crowd of 60,000 to 100,000 protestors gathered peacefully on Manchester ...

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 ...

The Peterloo Massacre took place on August 16, 1918 at St Peter's Field in Manchester, England. Leading up to the massacre were periods of famine in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars.

True story behind Peterloo - the massacre that changed Britain that's not taught in schools. Using historic census data, family trees and electoral records, she was able to locate living relatives ...

No, it's a massacre. It's known as the Peterloo Massacre, and that's what it was. It's not a battle because there aren't two opposing equal forces. It was chaos. Why tell this story now?

Mike Leigh tackles the incredible and under-told true story of the Peterloo Massacre. In 1918, armed guards on horseback charged into a crowd of peaceful protestors with swords drawn.

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.Commemorating the ...

Peterloo is purest Mike Leigh in the best sense: class-conscious, beautifully acted and filmed and a call for social change. It is also, despite that kinetic battle scene, a film of ideas and ...

But who was the man who ordered the Peterloo Massacre? In a cafe in Sloane Square, the screenwriter and Conservative peer Julian Fellowes is contemplating his most notorious ancestor.