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"On 16 August, 1819, at St Peter's Field, Manchester, armed cavalry attacked a peaceful rally of some 50,000 pro-democracy reformers. Under the eyes of the national press, 18 people were killed and some 700 injured, many of them by sabres, many of them women, some of them childr…
Ballads and songs of Peterloo
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Type: Book
The book is an edited collection of poems and songs written following the Peterloo Massacre in 1819. Notes to support the reading of the texts are provided, but they also stand alone, conveying the original publications without diluting their authenticity.