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Hace 5 días · Today, the Peterloo Massacre is remembered as a watershed moment in the struggle for democracy and political reform in Britain. It exposed the deep inequalities and injustices of the political system, and helped to galvanize a mass movement for change that would ultimately transform the country.
Hace 1 día · En resumen, Peterloo simplemente evidenció el conflicto de las dos Inglaterras: la vieja (Old England) —anclada en el Medioevo aristocrático, campestre e idealizado, epítome de britanismo tradicional con aroma nostálgico— y la moderna que proponía la burguesía —utilitaria, materialista, laissez-fairista, urbana e inundada de humo industrial—.
Hace 2 días · 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 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 parliament...
Hace 3 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 3 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 5 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 ...
