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Connections to curriculum. Between 1815 and 1819, there were a series of disturbances in Britain. Political meetings were held to protest against the government and demand reform. The climax came in 1819, when 60,000 people gathered at St. Peter’s Fields in Manchester. The main speaker at the meeting was Henry Hunt, a leading political reformer.
2019 marks 200 years since the Peterloo Massacre; a major event in Manchester’s history, and a defining moment for Britain’s democracy. A moment when ordinary people stepped up to protest in a way that has made its mark in history and with a legacy that lives on to today.
Aug 16, 2022 · This event became known as the Peterloo Massacre. The 'Peter' part of the name came from the location of the event in St Peters Fields, and the 'loo' part coming from the Battle of Waterloo ...
Yet Peterloo began, by all accounts, as a wholly peaceful demonstration. So, when 60,000 protesters gathered on St Peter's Fields in Manchester on the morning of 16 August 1819, few expected it to end in bloodshed. Trouble, however, flared when the yeomanry, a paramilitary force drawn from the ranks of the local mill and shop owners, were ...
May 26, 2024 · The Peterloo Massacre was a watershed moment in British history, a tragic but transformative event that shaped the course of democracy and civil liberties for generations to come. The courage and determination of the men, women, and children who gathered at St. Peter‘s Field on that fateful day in August 1819, in the face of violence and ...
Oct 29, 2018 · This Friday sees the release of director Mike Leigh’s film ‘Peterloo’, which dramatises the events of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre. On 16 August 1819, around 60,000 peaceful demonstrators gathered in St Peter’s Field, Manchester to hear pro-democracy speakers discuss the need for parliamentary reform. They were charged by armed cavalry. An estimated 15 people were killed, and […]
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Sep 20, 2024 · 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.
