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Peterloo - The English Uprising (Hardcover)
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Peterloo - The English Uprising (Hardcover)
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On 16 August, 1819, at St Peter's Field, Manchester, armed cavalry
attacked a peaceful rally of some 50,000 pro-democracy reformers.
Under the eyes of the national press, 18 people were killed and
some 700 injured, many of them by sabres, many of them women, some
of them children. The 'Peterloo massacre', the subject of a recent
feature film and a major commemoration in 2019, is famous as the
central episode in Edward Thompsons Making of the English Working
Class. It also marked the rise of a new English radical populism as
the British state, recently victorious at Waterloo, was challenged
by a pro-democracy movement centred on the industrial north. Why
did the cavalry attack? Who ordered them in? What was the radical
strategy? Why were there women on the platform, and why were they
so ferociously attacked? Using an immense range of sources, and
many new maps and illustrations, Robert Poole tells for the first
time the full extraordinary story of Peterloo: the English
Uprising.
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