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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


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    Peterloo: The "Massacre" and Its Background » Read Now

    by Donald Read. 240 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...PETERLOO The Massacre and its Background ACONTEMPORY...YEOMANRY RIDING FOR THE HUSTINGS PETERLOO The Massacre and its Background BY DONALD...without a paragraph describing...
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    Peterloo: The Case Reopened » Read Now

    by Donald Read. 240 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
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    Waterloo to Peterloo » Read Now

    by R. J. White. 204 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...Waterloo medals, had massacred a peaceable assembly...of the instigators of massacre should atone for the...for high treason. "Peterloo", coming within five...fratricidal...
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    Crowds, Culture, and Politics in Georgian Britain » Read Now

    by Nicholas Rogers. 291 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    Crowds have long been part of the historical landscape. Professor Nicholas Rogers examines the changing role and character of crowds in Georgian politics through an investigation of some of the major crowd interventions in the period 1714-1821. He shows how the topsy-turvy interventions of the...
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    Political Economy in Parliament, 1819-1823 (Chap. 6 "1819: In the Wake of Peterloo") » Read Now

    by Barry Gordon. 248 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...and Report on Cash Payments 34 5 1819: The Debates on Resumption 44 6 1819: In the Wake of Peterloo 59 7 1820: A Campaign for Free Trade 71 8 1820: Farmers and Labourers in...
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    British History, 1815-1906 » Read Now

    by Norman McCord. 518 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    This book is a study of the political, social, and economic history of England during the transformation of Britain from a predominately rural society into the world's first industrial nation, 1815 to 1906. Marshalling complex and abundant evidence, McCord has provided four chronological divisions:...
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    British History in the Nineteenth Century (1782-1901) » Read Now

    by George Macaulay Trevelyan. 450 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...Cobbet--The Radical movement and the Second Repression--Peterloo and Cato-- Street--The Queens Trial--Death of Castlereagh...brought the parson magistrate into popular...
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    British Working Class Movements: Select Documents, 1789- 1875 » Read Now

    by G. D. H. Cole, A. W. Filson. 629 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...RADICAL DEMANDS, 1818-1819. a From The Gorgon, 1818. b From Parliamentary Papers, 1819-1820 158 12. PETERLOO, 1819. From Sherwins Weekly Political Register, 1819 163 13...
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