![]() Marlow writes concisely yet in depth of the events leading up to the massacre and the aftermath as well as the day itself, covering everything in less than three hundred pages. It is a very thorough account, it almost reads as a story, covering the major characters, both political and the ordinary people attending the gathering on 16th August. Joyce Marlow’s book, first published in 1969, is being republished as the two hundredth anniversary of the massacre approaches. ![]() The whole event lasted less than twenty minutes but the repercussions reverberating a lot longer, with even Percy Shelley being outraged enough to write a poem about it. Peter’s Field where the massacre occurred, was and still is a highly controversial topic, a peaceful gathering in Manchester campaigning for parliamentary reform was turned into a murder scene with no provocation, leaving fifteen dead and hundreds injured. Peterloo, a portmanteau of Waterloo, the battle which occurred four years earlier, and St. ![]() It is however, when you look at it, it is a highly important event in the history of the working class suffrage movement and it is completely understandable why there is now a film being made of it. ![]() The nineteenth century working class movement is something that has been researched numerous times over the years but The Peterloo Massacre is not a historical event which is discussed much. This book was provided through Netgalley for review purpose. ![]()
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