Sat 23 Apr – Sat 5 Oct 2019 Free, no booking required. A Roving Exhibition, of Display Boards, and a display of Handmade Banners and Pendants, made by the Community, at various venues throughout Tameside. Commemorating the Bicentenary of Peterloo, Tameside Remembers Peterloo tells the story of the People of Tameside and how they were involved in Peterloo. Dates and … Continued
Sat 17 Aug, 7.30pm – 10.30pm Tickets: £6 A performance by the Stalybridge Brass Band, the oldest Brass Band in the World, commemorating the bicentenary of Peterloo. During the evening the music played on 16 August 1819 at Peterloo will be performed. This will follow with popular modern tunes that the whole family can enjoy. … Continued
Fri 28 Jun, 7.30pm – 10.30pm Tickets: £5 Peterloo is a concert by The Free Radicals, a folk band and comprising Geoff Higginbottom, Bob Ashworth and Martin Gittins. The songs collectively tell the story of the Peterloo Massacre in Manchester on 16 August 1819. This musical presentation traces the stories of those involved, the weavers, the Magistrates … Continued
Fri 2 Aug 7 – 9pm A talk by Alison Morgan on the ballads and songs of Peterloo with live music of the period performed by Pete Coe, Laura Smyth and Brian Peters. Alison has written a book on the subject which includes over seventy poems, published either as broadsides or in radical periodicals and … Continued
Fri 28 Jun, 7 – 9pm An illustrated talk by the expert on Peterloo, Dr Robert Poole, on Peterloo and Stockport’s connection to it with new material on both Stockport and Manchester.
Tue 11 Jun 7.30pm – 10pm Tickets: £4 The Manchester Military History society (MMHS) hosts lectures on military history on the 2nd Tuesday of each month in Hyde. On 11th of June our presentation will be on the Peterloo Massacre of 1819. We will take particular interest in the military aspects of Peterloo. Themes will … Continued
Sat 20 Jul 2pm – Sun 22 Sep 2019, 10am – 5pm Free, drop in. Protest is about claiming a space. Brought to PHM by historian Dr Katrina Navickas, this exhibition explores the history of spaces of protest and democratic politics in Manchester and Salford from the Peterloo Massacre in 1819 to today. What happened … Continued
Sat 18 May 10am – 5pm Peterloo conference hosted by the Society for the Study of Labour History on the significance of Peterloo. Confirmed speakers include Professor John Belchem, Professor Robert Poole and Katrina Navickas.
Wed 24 Apr, 2 – 3pm Free, booking required. Talk on Elijah Dixon and Manchester’s forgotten reformers. Rob’s talk will focus on Dixon’s contribution to the radical campaign for democracy, in the aftermath of Peterloo, as well as to a range of other causes aimed at improving working class life in Victorian Manchester. This is … Continued
Tue 16 Jul 1 – 3pm Peterloo Picnic – An afternoon of tea, cake and debate The picnic will be a culmination of a whole school project lasting approximately six weeks. The whole school community will join together to showcase the children’s work linked to the topic. A hustings will be erected in the school … Continued
