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Cultural event From the Crowd marks 200 years since Peterloo Massacre
Manchester City Council
Exactly 200 years later communities from across Manchester and beyond are invited to gather on the site of St Peter’s Field Manchester for a cultural event to commemorate those who were killed or injured at The Peterloo Massacre in 1819.
The Music of Peterloo - interview with Robin Richards
Front Row - BBC Radio 4
Robin Richards, composer and member of the bands Dutch Uncles explain how his new work to mark a bicentenary commemoration of the massacre, From the Crowd, draws on a similar thread of first hand radical testimony.
Peterloo Massacre: 200th Anniversary
Granada Reports
12 – 16 August 2019
All this week on Granada Reports, we’re marking the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo massacre.
Peterloo anniversary: Hundreds gather in Manchester
BBC News
16 August 2019
Hundreds of people have gathered in Manchester to mark the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo massacre.
Becky Want programme recorded live at From The Crowd
BBC Radio Manchester
16 August 2019
Becky marks the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre at St Peter’s Field.
Thousands gather for 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre
Channel 4
16 August 2019
Thousands of people have been taking part in a ceremony in Manchester today, marking the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre.
Peterloo bicentenary: Manchester massacre remembered
Euro News
16 August 2019
Peterloo bicentenary: Manchester massacre remembered as historians draw parallels with politics today – mentions events across the country. The bloodiest political episode of 19th-century England started the journey to the modern rights we enjoy, as a country, today.
Events have been organised to mark this momentous moment in British political history
iNews
16 August 2019
Peterloo Massacre anniversary events: Memorials in Manchester and across the UK to mark 200 years since tragedy.
Rain doesn't deter hundreds remembering Peterloo Massacre
ITV News
16 August 2019
Elaine Wilcox report from From the Crowd including interviews with Sheila Lemoine-Abrams, Descendant and Paul Fitzgerald from the Peterloo Memorial Campaign.
Peterloo live: What happened in Manchester city centre on August 16, 1819, as it happened.
Manchester Evening News
16 August 2019
200 years ago today 18 people were killed and 650 were injured during a rally at St Peter’s Field which would change the course of democracy.
Danny Boyle joins calls for council to rectify 'mistake' over lack of disabled access to Peterloo Massacre memorial
Manchester Evening News
16 August 2019
The Bury-born director said it was a ‘great shame’ but that it was entirely appropriate that voices have been heard. Danny Boyle has joined calls for Manchester council to rectify its ‘mistake’ over the lack of disabled access to the Peterloo Massacre memorial.
Peterloo 200 years on: The Manchester bloodbath which left 18 dead and changed the course of British history.
Manchester Evening News
16 August 2019
‘I’m a Mancunian and I’ve walked these streets hundreds and hundreds of times. But this is the first time I’ve been here and really thought about what happened on that day. It’s really chilling’.
Remembering the Peterloo Massacre – 200 years on
The National Lottery Heritage Fund
16 August 2019
Two centuries after ordinary people in Manchester demanded freedom from oppression, young people are expressing what protest means to them today.
A Thousand People Gather to Commemorate 200 Years Since the Peterloo Massacre
That's Manchester TV
16 August 2019
Exactly 200 years on, just as the people protesting at Peterloo on 16 August 1819 came together, so too did the people remembering those who lost their lives. Communities from across Greater Manchester and far beyond gathered on the site of St Peter’s Field on Friday for the Peterloo 2019 Anniversary Event. It was a day of music, choirs and more, as a hopeful and moving reflection of where this story began.
Manchester gets ready for noisy tribute to the dead of Peterloo
The Guardian
16 August 2019
Thousands of people are to take part in a huge re-enactment of the Peterloo massacre to mark the 200th anniversary of one of the defining moments in British political history.
Peterloo massacre bicentenary revives reformist spirit of 1819
The Guardian
Manchester crowds hear why march that ended in 18 deaths still has relevance in modern Britain.
The Peterloo Massacre 200th anniversary: What happened in Manchester in 1819?
Evening Standard
Two hundred years ago, a massacre occurred on St Peter’s Field in Manchester in what was a turning point for Britain.
Electrifying moment a young lad from Trafford brought the spirit of Peterloo back to life
Manchester Evening News
Jardel Rodrigues, a student in his second year at Salford University, enraptured the rain-soaked crowd with his spoken-word performance.
From The Crowd Commemorative Performance
Disability Arts Online
From The Crowd was a piece of immersive theatre performed last Friday, recalling the pro-democracy gathering in St Peter’s Field, Manchester on 16th August 1819. Brian Hilton was there amongst a crowd of 3.000 commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre.