Peterloo
On the eve of the anniversary of the 'Massacre of Peterloo', multi-award winning journalist, historian, author and tour guide Ed Glinert tells the story of how this peaceful demonstration became violent.
The Peterloo Massacre was a defining moment in British political history – and its most violent event.On the 16th of August 1819 60,000 people gathered at St Peter's Fields in the middle of Manchester for a rally calling for Parliamentary representation and an end to the hated Corn Laws.
The magistrates panicked and sent in the troops who attacked the crowd, killing at least a dozen, probably more, and inflicting injuries on more than 600 people.
Ed Glinert, tour guide of Manchester's political history and author of the forthcoming epic history "Manchester: The Biography", relates the dreadful story.
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