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Peterloo - Voices, Sabres and Silence (Paperback)
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Peterloo - Voices, Sabres and Silence (Paperback)
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On 16 August 1819 on St Peter's Field, Manchester, a peaceful
demonstration of some 60,000 workers and reformers was brutally
dispersed by sabrewielding cavalry, resulting in at least fifteen
dead and over 600 injured. Within days the slaughter was named
'Peter-loo', as an ironic reference to the battleground of
Waterloo. Now the subject of a major film, this highly detailed yet
readable narrative, based almost entirely on eyewitness reports and
contemporary documents, brings the events of that terrible day
vividly to life. In a world in which the legitimacy of facts is in
constant jeopardy from media and authoritarian bias, the lessons to
be learned from the bloodshed and the tyrannical aftermath are as
pertinent today as they were 200 years ago. Film director Mike
Leigh has defined Peterloo as 'the event that becomes more relevant
with every new episode of our crazy times'.
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