Civil rights, workers, women, financial figures and the orator, landlord Henry Hunt. The Peterloo Massacre in Manchester on August 16, 1819 by Christensen Carsten Sander

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Fabrice Bensimon (ed.), Samuel Bamford : La vie d’un radical anglaise au temps de Peterloo by Rachel Rogers

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The Cato Street Conspiracy: Plotting, Counter-Intelligence and the Revolutionary Tradition in Britain and Ireland, ed. Jason McElligott and Martin Conboy, Manchester: Manchester Un... by Rachel Rogers

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1820: A Year of Conspiracies by Gordon Pentland

“…It ends by suggesting that 1820 may have been the high-water mark of conspiracy in British politics–another way in which the crucial period between the Peterloo massacre and the Queen Caroline crisis was an important turning point.…”
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After Peterloo: Protest, Rebellion, and the Cato Street Conspiracy by Robert Poole

“…How close did Britain come to revolution in 1819-20? The ‘Peterloo massacre’ of August 1819 in Manchester was a landmark event in British radicalism. …”
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National Trauma and Romantic Illusions in Percy Shelley’s <i>The Cenci</i> by Lisa Kasmer

“…Percy Shelley responded to the 1819 Peterloo Massacre by declaring the government&#8217;s response &#8220;a bloody murderous oppression.&#8222; As Shelley&#8217;s language suggests, this was a seminal event in the socially conscious life of the poet. …”
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