All posts VideoThomas Jackson’s account of PeterlooTuesday 19 November 2019Thomas Jackson’s account of the Peterloo Massacre, written on the evening of 16 August...VideoThe Manchester Observer account of the Peterloo MassacreTuesday 19 November 2019This article appeared in the pro-Parliamentary Reform newspaper, The Manchester Observer, on 21 August...VideoHenry Hunt’s invitation to the people of ManchesterTuesday 19 November 2019Henry Hunt’s invitation to the people of Manchester in the week leading up to...VideoHobhouse to magistrate: Prelude to PeterlooTuesday 19 November 2019Henry Hobhouse, Permanent Undersecretary to the Home Office, writes to James Norris, Lancashire magistrate,...VideoAccounts of Loyalist oaths prior to PeterlooTuesday 12 November 2019Accounts of Loyalist oaths in the prelude to Peterloo – from Bell’s Weekly Messenger,...VideoIllegal meetings and military drills in the lead up to PeterlooTuesday 12 November 2019Reports of illegal meetings and military drills by radicals in the lead up to...Video‘The Bitter Cup of Oppression’: The Female Reformers of ManchesterThursday 7 November 2019An address from the Female Reformers of Manchester, printed in the Manchester Observer on...Video‘A Malignant Spirit’: Lord Sidmouth on reform societiesThursday 7 November 2019Lord Sidmouth on the suspension of Habeas Corpus in the lead up to the...AudioOn the trail of Klaus Fuchs, atomic spyTuesday 8 October 2019Arguably the most important ‘atomic’ spy of the 20th century, Klaus Fuchs was a...AudioThe legacy of secrecy: Experiences from the Stasi Records ArchiveTuesday 1 October 2019The East German Stasi had the reputation of being one of the most effective and...AudioWritten treasure: Correspondence from captured ships, 1652-1815Friday 27 September 2019As pirates buried their captured gold and jewels, their legal cousins – privateers and...AudioSecurity Service file release September 2019Tuesday 24 September 2019Professor Christopher Andrew, formerly official historian of MI5 and author of ‘The Defence of... « 1 … 9 10 11 12 13 … 90 »