Articles relating to: Peterloo
“Maybe there will be some sort of renewal to come out of this.” Polyp, founder of the Peterloo Memorial Campaign, talks to Northern Soul
It’s a sun-splashed Tuesday morning 72 hours from Peterloo day. I’m at the Kim by the Sea café in regenerated Hulme.
Read the full story..Beyond the history: Peterloo exhibitions in Manchester
This summer Manchester will mark the anniversary of a public pro-democracy demonstration on August 16, 1819, and its now infamous and bloody response from the authorities.
Read the full story..Film Review: Peterloo
Over the course of 14 feature films Mike Leigh has covered a wide range of subjects, from the disastrous opening of a French restaurant and the fall of a post-war abortionist to an adopted daughter tracking down her birth mother and Gilbert & Sullivan getting their second wind.
Read the full story..Peterloo: Witnesses to a Massacre. Northern Soul talks to the team behind a new graphic novel
The name of Peterloo is bandied about so much these days that it would be tempting to forget there was never any such place.
Read the full story..Dear Sisters of the Earth…
Going to school in Manchester I learnt about the Peterloo Massacre because the leaders of Manchester City Council, in those days at least, thought that we should know about a key event in the campaign for the vote which had taken place in the city.
Read the full story..The Story of Peterloo
Being a tourist in your own city is an unusual and dislocating experience.
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