This massacre caused a national outcry and was dubbed "Peterloo" by the radical press ... George Cruikshank drew this savage cartoon at the time. The horror felt across the country at the news ...
"the last living of that gallant band of Failsworth Reformers who were present at that memorable but disgraceful massacre which took place at Peterloo in 1819". Sixty-five years before the photo ...
Parts of Lincoln have been transformed to represent Manchester in 1819 for Mike Leigh's new film about the Peterloo Massacre. Peterloo tells the story of a mass rally by pro-democracy campaigners ...