All posts 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...VideoMajor Dyneley’s account of the Peterloo MassacreTuesday 19 November 2019Major Thomas Dyneley was in command of the horse artillery stationed in Manchester on...VideoThe Petition of Mary Fildes, 15 May 1821Tuesday 19 November 2019This video is an abridged adaptation of the petition delivered to Parliament in 1821...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... « 1 … 9 10 11 12 13 … 90 »