Posts by Chris Day 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...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... 1 2 »