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23 mag 2024 · 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 Napoleonic Wars.
26 mag 2024 · 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.
29 mag 2024 · Here, like Mike Leigh’s film, Peterloo (2018), the artist can come closer to recreating the horror and actual experience of Peterloo, it can bring to life the human suffering of the massacre in a way that the written word cannot.
23 mag 2024 · Uncover the events of the Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester ended in tragedy and sparked nationwide reform.
23 mag 2024 · 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 protest for political reform...
26 mag 2024 · Introduction. On August 16, 1819, a peaceful crowd of 60,000 to 80,000 men, women, and children gathered at St. Peter‘s Field in Manchester, England, to demand parliamentary reform and an end to the economic hardship that followed the Napoleonic Wars.
25 mag 2024 · Leigh’s next film, Peterloo (2018), centres on the Peterloo Massacre (1819), in which a peaceful political rally was attacked by British forces. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
