PETERLOO MASSACRE

public disturbance in St. Peter's Field, Manchester, England, Aug. 16, 1819, also called the Manchester massacre. A crowd of some 60,000 men, women, and children were peaceably gathered under the leadership of Henry Hunt to petition Parliament for the repeal of the corn laws and for parliamentary reform. The magistrates ordered the meeting to disband. A cavalry charge to aid the untrained Manchester yeomanry resulted in 11 deaths and injuries estimated at over 400. The government's endorsement of the magistrates' action created widespread indignation, which added moral force to the reform movement. The name Peterloo, later given the incident, was suggested by the name Waterloo.

See F. A. Bruton, Three Accounts of Peterloo (1921); studies by G. R. Kestevan (1967) and J. Marlow (1969).

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Peterloo: the "Massacre" and Its Background
Book by Donald Read; Manchester University Press, 1958
Subjects: Peterloo Massacre, Manchester, England, 1819
PETERLOO The Massacre and its Background ACONTEMPORY...YEOMANRY RIDING FOR THE HUSTINGS PETERLOO The Massacre and its Background BY DONALD...without a paragraph describing the Peterloo Massacre of August 16, 1819. Yet it is...
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Peterloo: the Case Reopened
Book by Donald Read; University of Manchester, 1958
Subjects: Peterloo Massacre, Manchester, England, 1819
PETERLOO The Massacre and its Background A CONTEMPORARY...YEOMANRY RIDING FOR THE HUSTINGS PETERLOO The Massacre and its Background BY DONALD...without a paragraph describing the Peterloo Massacre of August 16, 1819. Yet it is...
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Waterloo to Peterloo
Book by R. J. White; Russell & Russell, 1973
Subjects: Great Britain--History--1800-1837, Great Britain--Social Conditions--19th Century
...Waterloo medals, had massacred a peaceable assembly...of the instigators of massacre should atone for the...for high treason. "Peterloo", coming within five...fratricidal clamour of Peterloo, and viewing his country...hearing of the Manchester Massacre, he sent the "despots...
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The Massacre in History
Book by Mark Levene, Penny Roberts; Berghahn Books, 1999
Subjects: Massacres
...coming from, if not necessarily to where we might be going? History is resonant with massacre. Refer, in Britain, to a Glencoe, a Culloden, or a Peterloo and they will frequently evoke strong reactions, even though these events were many generations...
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John Keats and the Culture of Dissent
Book by Nicholas Roe; Clarendon Press, 1998
Subjects: Fiction, Keats, John--1795-1821--Political And Social Views, Political Poetry, English--History And Criticism, Politics And Literature--Great Britain--History--19th Century, Radicalism--Great Britain--History--19th Century, Social Problems In Literature
...Manchester, killing and wounding scores of people: the Peterloo Massacre. From the peaceful mass meeting in Copenhagen Fields to the tragic violence at Peterloo, Keatss life spanned three decades of intense political...
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Strange Flesh: Shelley and the Performance of Skepticism
Journal article by William Jewett; Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Vol. 38, 1996
Subjects: Literature--History And Criticism, Philology
...William Jewett In September 1819, when news of the Peterloo Massacre had reached Shelley in Leghorn, he vented his rage...indignation that boiled in his veins in the aftermath of Peterloo. But is there a way to understand the anxious doubleness...
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Kinship, Generation and Community: The Transmission of Political Ideology in Radical Plebeian Print Culture
Journal article by David Worrall; Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 43, 2004
Subjects: English romanticism, 1798-1832--Criticism and interpretation, Radicalism--Criticism and interpretation
...historical consciousness. The Peterloo Massacre of 16 August 1819, in which...August 1819, the month of the Peterloo massacre, gives the kinship details...beginning slightly before the Peterloo massacre and accelerating in scope during...
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Count Cenci's Abysmal Credit
Journal article by Linda C. Brigham; Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Vol. 38, 1996
Subjects: Literature--History And Criticism, Philology
...Philosophical View , in part a reaction to the Peterloo Massacre in the months following the composition of The...as would be dramatized by the denouement of the Peterloo massacre: the government responded to the violence with...
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Malice Aforethought: the Fictions of Ellis Sharp
Journal article by MacDonald Daly; Critique, Vol. 39, 1998
Subjects: Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism
...gets caught up in the Peterloo Massacre, kicks a soldier "hard...as bourgeois ones. Peterloo (eleven dead) was a...scrap by comparison with massacres on a modern scale...revolt, the Blanketeers, Peterloo itself), thumbnail philippics...
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England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism
Journal article by Harriet Kramer Linkin; CLIO, Vol. 28, 1999
Subjects: Books--Reviews, England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism (Book)--Reviews
...political history for the "Peterloo Massacre." For Chandler "Peterloo" signals a "major transformation...representation" (18) because the massacre that occurs when sixty thousand...to the representation of Peterloo will be frustrated to discover...
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Burning Down the House: Bereft of Ideas, the Party Leaders Are Ransacking the Storehouse of History. Yet, in Their Very Desperation, They Are Sowing the Seeds of Destruction of Our Political System
Magazine article by Ted Vallance; New Statesman (1996), Vol. 138, June 8, 2009
Subjects: Cameron, David--Political activity, Legislators--Political aspects, Party leaders--Political aspects
...often than not, ended in failure, even in tragedy. The Peterloo Massacre of 1819 brought about the deaths of up to 18 peaceful...the atrocity was a crackdown on radical activity. Peterloo reminds us that, although popular radicalism favoured...
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The Rise of the Sex Manual
Magazine article by Michael Bush; History Today, Vol. 49, February 1999
Subjects: Sex--Information services, Sexual ethics--Information services
...impressed by them at the mass meeting in 1819 for political reform on St Peters Field in Manchester which led to the Peterloo Massacre. Carlile observed in the great crowd `females from the age of twelve to eighty, cheering with their caps in their...
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Radical Rowdies: A Public Falling-Out Ended the Close Political Friendship between Two Leaders of Reform in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain. A Familiar Scenario?
Magazine article by Penny Young; History Today, Vol. 58, July 2008
Subjects: Cobbett, William--Social aspects, Friendship--Political aspects, Hunt, Henry--Social aspects, Politicians--Social aspects, Public speakers--Social aspects
...at Spa Fields, London, in 1816-17 as well as the protest meeting in St Peters Field, Manchester that led to the Peterloo Massacre of 1819, for which he was sentenced to two-and-a-half years incarceration in Ilchester Prison, where he wrote his...
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Keats
Magazine article by Eric Ormsby; New Criterion, Vol. 16, May 1998
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Keats (Book)--Reviews
...capsule accounts of those historical moments and movements which had so marked an effect upon Keats, such as the Peterloo Massacre of 1819. In Motions account, Keats emerges as steeped to his eyeballs in current, especially radical, activities...
5.
So Close and Yet So Despised
Magazine article by Ziauddin Sardar; New Statesman, Vol. 129, December 11, 2000
Subjects: Steel industry--Historic sites, UNESCO--Historic sites, Wales--Historic sites
...So history books record the Tolpuddle martyrs, the putative ancestors of the trade union movement, and the 1819 Peterloo massacre in Manchester, the Chartist demonstration for electoral reform in which 11 people were killed. Yet who has ever...


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Ken's Massacre of History; in Beijing, Mayor Ken Livingstone Has Played Down China's Human Rights Record. but One Writer, Who Witnessed the Tiananmen Events, Says Such Abuses Still Continue
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), April 10, 2006
...with universal values. Hence, the Mayor noted, the Peterloo massacre of 1819 in Manchester. At a suffrage demonstration...may figure on the great continuum reaching back to Peterloo and before. If you murdered people in Tiananmen in...
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Obselete Laws Set to Be Scrapped; POLITICS
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), March 19, 2008
Subjects: United Kingdom. Parliament. House of Lords--Political activity
...turnpikes, workhouses, and the Peterloo massacre are rightly of interest to...of 1819 passed following the Peterloo Massacre when 11 people were killed...turnpikes, workhouses, and the Peterloo massacre are rightly of interest to...
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Time Out
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), October 25, 2008
...the folk song This Land Is Your Land? WHAT musical instrument was Charlie Mingus associated with? WHERE was the Peterloo Massacre of 1819? WHEN did Edward Heath become MP for Bexley? remember when ... 1 Tennessee Williams and Luis Bunuel died...
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Day One of Mayor's China Trip and He Compares Tiananmen Horror to Trafalgar Sq Poll Tax Riots
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), April 10, 2006
...democracy was also a violent one and used the 1819 Peterloo massacre in Manchester - in which 11 people were killed and...Canton; Foochow; Nangpo; Amoy and Shanghai. The Peterloo massacre: One of the most notorious incidents in 19th-century...
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Mayor Ken's Great Blunder of China ... Beijing Visit: He Compares Tiananmen to Trafalgar Sq Poll Tax Riots
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), April 10, 2006
Subjects: Human rights--Public opinion, Human rights--Surveys, Riots--Public opinion, Riots--Surveys
...democracy was not one to be proud of, and used the 1819 Peterloo massacre in Manchester - in which 11 people were killed and...Asked for his own recollection of the Tiananmen Square massacre, he said: "My thoughts at the time, I will discuss...
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1.
Peterloo Massacre
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PETERLOO MASSACRE public disturbance...also called the Manchester massacre. A crowd of some 60,000...reform movement. The name Peterloo, later given the incident...Bruton, Three Accounts of Peterloo (1921); studies by G...
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Bamford, Samuel
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...poet, and social reformer. Always sympathetic toward the working class, he was jailed in 1819 for his part in the Peterloo massacre. His dialect verses were popular among the Lancashire workers. Besides his poetry, Bamford is noted for Passages...
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Hunt, Henry
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Fields meeting (1816) and gained his chief notice by presiding at the meeting in Manchester that ended in the Peterloo massacre (1819). He was imprisoned for two years, after a trial of doubtful legality. Hunt sat in Parliament (1830 32) but...
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Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...policy of repression its strong measures against the Luddites , its periodic suspension of habeas corpus, and the Peterloo massacre . See biography by P. Ziegler (1965). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with...
5.
Manchester , City, England
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...1832, and in 1838, thanks to the efforts of Richard Cobden , Manchester was incorporated as a borough. The Peterloo massacre occurred in Manchester in 1819, and the city has played a prominent role in liberal reform movements. The influential...


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