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Hace 4 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 2 días · 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 parliamentary reform was attacked by local yeomanry, leaving 18 people dead and hundreds injured. The ‘masque’ it describes begins with a ...
Hace 1 día · 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...
Hace 2 días · Peterloo (2018) We watched this today. Not bad. They could have cut about an hour of it but I am particularly allergic to speechifying in films. I think Susan enjoyed it for a decent job on the settings and costumes but did quip 'at least we aren't going to be tested on this'.
Hace 4 días · The Industrial Revolution, which began in Britain in the mid-18th century and spread to other parts of the world by the mid-19th century, was a period of unprecedented change that fundamentally altered the course of human history. At its core, the Industrial Revolution was characterized by a shift from manual labor to mechanized production, the ...
Hace 2 días · This had its hints of Peterloo and 1819. Yet meetings took place inside as well as out, and in an era of declining militancy after 1848, numbers were fewer, and independent class politics tended to make way for a more general emphasis on education and individual self-improvement.
Hace 3 días · Palmerston and the publican: a tale of betrayal. Plans for an armed rising in London during the summer of 1848 were compromised from the start. Infiltrated by police informers and hopelessly ill-prepared, the Chartists and Irish Confederates who planned to seize the capital and spark a revolution never stood the slightest chance of success. A ...
