Название: The Peterloo MassacreАвтор: ]Joyce Marlow
Издательство: Penguin Random House UK
Год: 2018
ISBN: 1785038648 / 9781785038648
Формат: epub
Страниц: 288
Размер: 10,3 mb
Язык: English
On August 16 1819, in St Peter’s Field, Manchester, a large non-violent gathering demanding parliamentary reform turned into a massacre, leaving many dead and hundreds more injured.
This catastrophic event was one of the key moments of the age, a political awakening of the working class, and eventually led to ordinary people gaining suffrage. In this definitive account Joyce Marlow tells the stories of the real people involved and brings to life the atrocity the government attempted to cover up.