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Hace 6 días · Peterloo Massacre, in English history, the brutal dispersal by cavalry of a radical meeting held on St. Peter’s Fields in Manchester on August 16, 1819. The “massacre” (likened to Waterloo ) attests to the profound fears of the privileged classes of the imminence of violent Jacobin revolution in England in the years after the ...
Hace 3 días · The memory of Peterloo has been contested and reshaped over the past 200 years, reflecting the ongoing struggle to come to terms with the darker chapters of Britain‘s past. In the immediate aftermath of the massacre, the government and local authorities sought to downplay the violence and portray the protesters as a dangerous mob.
Hace 6 días · 1 view 10 minutes ago. Journey back in time to the Peterloo Massacre, a pivotal event in the history of democracy. This video explores the tragic events of August 16, 1819, when a peaceful...
Hace 6 días · Uncover the events of the Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester ended in tragedy and sparked nationwide reform.
21 de may. de 2024 · Peterloo remains a key moment in the nation’s (and arguably) world political history and has been evoked across time, place and political context. I shall begin with the conventional monograph, Robert Poole’s The English Uprising: Peterloo. A book that has been a long time in the making and is all the better for it.
Hace 22 horas · Shelley’s angry, violent poem was written in direct response to the Peterloo Massacre in Manchester in 1819, in which a demonstration in favour of parliament...
14 de may. de 2024 · 'Space and place are central to the strategies and meaning of protest’ (p. xi) reads the opening sentence of Katrina Navickas's latest study, Protest and the Politics of Space and Place 1789–1848.Written, in part, as a response to the 'spatial turn' in History, Navickas makes a cogent and persuasive argument for attending to the importance of the particularities of 'place' rather than the ...
