I hope very much that you remember our work on Peterloo from our voting and democracy work in the lower school. This month marks its bi-centenary, and there has been some excellent journalism on its significance. I have hyper-linked them here.
You might also like to read Shelley’s “Mask of Anarchy” – a poem that he wrote in response to the massacre. You can do so by clicking here (an extract is included below). Victorian radicalism was very real.
"Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number— Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you— Ye are many—they are few."
Finally last year Mike Leigh made a film about Peterloo. The trailer and a review can be found below.
Mr Kydd.
