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Historian Robert Poole has called the Peterloo Massacre "the bloodiest political event of the 19th century in English soil", and "a political earthquake in the northern powerhouse of the industrial revolution ". [1]
Peterloo is a 2018 British historical drama, written and directed by Mike Leigh, based on the Peterloo Massacre of 1819. The film was selected to be screened in the main competition section of the 75th Venice International Film Festival.
Apr 5, 2019 · Peterloo: Directed by Mike Leigh. With Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Pearce Quigley, David Moorst. The story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre in which British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester.
Peterloo Massacre, the brutal dispersal by cavalry of a radical meeting held on St. Peter’s Fields in Manchester, England, on August 16, 1819.
Jan 20, 2021 · The Manchester Observer coined the name ‘Peterloo Massacre’, an ironic portmanteau combining St Peter’s Fields and the Battle of Waterloo, fought four years earlier. One of the casualties, an Oldham cloth-worker John Lees, had even fought at Waterloo .
Jul 24, 2018 · Internationally acclaimed and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mike Leigh portrays one of the bloodiest episodes in British history, the infamous Peterloo Massacre of 1819, where government-backed ...
Five days after the massacre James Wroe of the Manchester Observer coined the word ‘Peterloo’, a bitter pun on an incident at Waterloo four years earlier when soldiers attacked unarmed civilians. His pun cost him a year’s liberty and his newspaper shut down.
