The Peterloo Massacre

by Robert Reid

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This volume provides a narrative account of the events leading to the charge of a strong force of yeomanry and regular cavalry into a crowd of more than 100,000 workers gathered for a parliamentary reform meeting on St Peter's Field, Manchester in August 1819. Several were killed and dozens sabred and badly wounded. The book describes, with much contemporary detail, the nature of a society powerfully influenced by technological change in the years leading to the massacre.
  • ISBN10 0434629014
  • ISBN13 9780434629015
  • Publish Date 13 November 1989
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 4 December 1992
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Cornerstone
  • Imprint William Heinemann Ltd
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 320
  • Language English