Peterloo: The English Uprising by Robert Poole

Peterloo: The English Uprising

Robert Poole

480 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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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 ...

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