All posts AudioVoices of the Windrush GenerationMonday 30 December 2019‘Voices of the Windrush Generation: The real story told by the people themselves’ by...AudioDocumentary enlightenment: The death of Edward II and the principles of historical methodologyFriday 27 December 2019How do we know what we think we know about the past, and why...AudioThe Fall of WolseyWednesday 20 November 2019490 years ago Thomas Wolsey – King Henry VIII’s former favourite – fell from...AudioHow James Bond won the Cold War for BritainTuesday 19 November 2019Charlie Higson, author of the best-selling Young Bond books, discusses the genesis of 007...VideoActors offering to be Lord Sidmouth’s spiesTuesday 19 November 2019Lord Sidmouth, the Home Secretary at the time of the Peterloo Massacre, relied on...VideoLetter from J. Norris to Lord Sidmouth, Manchester, 6 October 1819Tuesday 19 November 2019Acts of sporadic violence on both sides continued after the Peterloo Massacre. In this...VideoContinued violence in Manchester after PeterlooTuesday 19 November 2019A report in the Manchester Observer of the continued aggressive behaviour of Edward Meagher,...VideoHenry Hobhouse to Sir John Byng, 18 August 1819Tuesday 19 November 2019Henry Hobhouse writes to Sir John Byng in the aftermath of the Peterloo Massacre....VideoThe glorious cause of reformTuesday 19 November 2019In this letter published in the pro-reformer Manchester Observer, the cause of reform is...VideoAn open letter to Lord Sidmouth demanding justice after PeterlooTuesday 19 November 2019A public letter from Richard Carlile, a prominent radical reformer writer and publisher, to...VideoConstable Jonathan Anderson’s account of PeterlooTuesday 19 November 2019Constable Jonathan Anderson’s account of the Peterloo Massacre. Performed by Eddie Kelsey. Archives Alive:...VideoJohn Tyas reporting on the Peterloo for The Times, 19 August 1819Tuesday 19 November 2019Although critical of the troops’ and magistrates’ actions, Tyas was not without words of... « 1 … 8 9 10 11 12 … 90 »