Peterloo : the story of the Manchester massacre / Jacqueline Riding ; foreword by Mike Leigh.
"Manchester, 16 August 1819. On a hot late summer's day, a crowd of 60,000 gathered in St Peter's Field. They came from all over Lancashire - ordinary working-class men, women and children - walking to the sound of hymns and folk songs, wearing their best clothes and holding silk bann...
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[London] :
Head of Zeus,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Prelude: two fields
- Manchester
- The new bailey
- Dorset house
- Westminster
- Bibby's rooms
- Cold bath fields
- Dewsbury
- Covent garden
- The spread eagle
- Campsmount
- The union rooms
- Smedley cottage
- Middleton
- St Peter's field
- New cross
- HMY Royal George
- Oldham
- House of Commons.