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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 3 días · On August 16, 1819, a peaceful rally at St Peter‘s Field in Manchester turned into a bloody massacre when armed cavalry charged into the crowd, killing 15 people and injuring hundreds more. The Peterloo Massacre, as it came to be known, was a watershed moment in the struggle for democracy and political reform in Britain.
Hace 20 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...
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 parliamentary reform was attacked by local yeomanry, leaving 18 people dead and hundreds injured. The ‘masque’ it describes begins with a ...
Hace 1 día · 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 · 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 5 días · Castlereagh: Enlightenment, War, and Tyranny. London, Quercus, 2011, ISBN: 9780857381866; 582pp.; Price: £25.00. Viscount Castlereagh’s reputation had a very bad 19th century. Irish nationalists called him a turncoat and a tyrant for the role he played in suppressing the 1798 Rising as Chief Secretary at Dublin Castle.
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