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11.6 m (38 ft) Opening date. 14 August 2019. Dedicated to. Those who died in the Peterloo Massacre of 16 August 1819. Website. peterloomassacre.org. The Peterloo Memorial is a memorial in Manchester, England, commemorating the Peterloo Massacre. It is sited close to the site of the massacre and was unveiled on 14 August 2019.
Apr 10, 2020 · Illustration for Jeremy Deller’s Memorial. Historian Robert Poole described the Peterloo Massacre as ‘the bloodiest political event of the 19th century in English soil’ and, with 15 deaths and over 600 recorded injuries, it’s easy to see why. The Peterloo Massacre was as a result of police brutality during a protest.
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 ...
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From Waterloo to Manchester In 1789 the French Revolution shook the world and the ideas of liberty, equality and fraternity spread rapidly. In Britain, less than 3% of the population could vote and the system was entirely corrupt. The ideas of the French Revolution were therefore eagerly received and most powerfully expressed in Thomas Paine’s book...
Representation In the context of poverty and the huge numbers of working people pushed into the industrial centres in and around Manchester, a reform movement demanding the right to representation captured the minds of large numbers of ordinary people. Despite the growing population of Manchester, there was no MP to solely represent the area. A dem...
Preparing for the protest The industrial towns surrounding Manchester put huge efforts into the preparations in the weeks beforehand and contingents from each area had different creative responses. Oldham’s centrepiece was 200 women in white dresses and a banner of pure white silk, emblazoned with inscriptions including ‘Universal Suffrage’, ‘Annua...
Women at Peterloo Historians have noted that women were disproportionately targeted at Peterloo; their presence shocked the establishment, challenging the prevalent ideas of women as subservient and domesticated wives. While the reform movement called for the vote for men (under the slogan ‘Universal Suffrage’), women were beginning to organise and...
Legacy of the Massacre The British government was keen to cover up the massacre, imprisoning the reform leaders and clamping down on those who spoke out against the government. Within days the massacre was being reported upon both nationally and internationally. However, with the implementation of the new Six Acts legislation, it became extremely d...
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. Disrupt? Peterloo and Protest exhibition is at People’s History Museum (PHM) ...
Aug 16, 2022 · On 16 August 1819, thousands of people gathered in Manchester to take part in a peaceful protest to ask Parliament for a fairer political system and more voting rights. But the day ended in ...
Jan 20, 2021 · Back at home, a brief boom in textile production was cut short by chronic economic depression. Lancashire was hit hard. As a centre of the textile trade, its weavers and spinners struggled to put bread on the table. Weavers who earnt 15 shillings for a six-day week in 1803 saw their wages cut to 4 or 5 shillings by 1818.
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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