Parliament & Peterloo

Parliament & Peterloo

Starts: Thu 4th July 9:00AM
Ends: Thu 26th September 6:00PM
Venue: Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London , SW1A 0AA
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Access information: Fully accessible venue
Event organisation: UK Parliament
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Thu 4 July – Thu 26 September 2019

Open Mon – Sat, 9am – 6pm

Booking required.

This free exhibition explores the political and social background to the Peterloo massacre and Parliament’s reaction to it.

Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London and the History of Parliament Trust contributed to the exhibition. They have discovered documents in the Parliamentary Archives relating to what happened at St Peter’s Field in Manchester on 16 August 1819.

Visitors can explore this material on an interactive table. Some of the documents were used as reference material for ‘Peterloo’, the 2018 feature film written and directed by Mike Leigh.

Enormous thanks to our partners and funders