Peterloo: The Story of the Manchester Massacre by Jacqueline Riding

Peterloo: The Story of the Manchester Massacre

Jacqueline Riding

400 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative medium-paced
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Manchester, August 1819: 60,000 people had gathered in the cause of parliamentary reform. To those defending the status quo, the vote was not a universal right, but a privilege of wealth and land ownership. To radical reformers the fundamental ove...

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