Eyewitness Accounts

To commemorate the 200 year anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre the Peterloo 2019 Ambassadors have worked in partnership with Professor Robert Poole (University of Central Lancashire), author of Peterloo: the English Uprising and the Age of Revolution at University of Kent to compile the 400+ eyewitness accounts which include press reports and petitions.

This is the first time the original accounts have been compiled into an online archive. You can now use the website to search by name, place and role and learn more about the eyewitness accounts from 1819.

Liverpool Mercury Report

20 Aug. Written by an ‘eye witness’ describes the crowd waiting in an orderly way for Mr Hunt whilst bands played. Description of of the attack on the hustings by the Cavalry and names some of those taken to the New Bailey. Account of events that followed including crowds smashing windows at New Cross.

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