As we reach August there will be more events around the country to remember the Peterloo Massacre 200 years ago, as well as more showings of Mike Leigh’s film.
Thursday 14 February. 2pm. Peterloo Network meeting
People’s History Museum, Manchester
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/peterloo-network-meeting-2019-tickets-50168516383?aff=erelexpmlt
https://www.creativetourist.com/event/peterloo-2019-network-meeting
Thursday 14 February. Living History performance Peterloo
‘James, a naive businessman who wants to find out the truth about the Peterloo Massacre’ ‘speaks to eye witnesses of the events at St Peter’s Field in 1819, to understand why they happened in the first place and how they are relevant to us today.’
People’s History Museum, Manchester https://www.creativetourist.com/event/living-history-performance-peterloo
Tuesday 5 March. Closing date for Peterloo cultural project submissions
Manchester Histories, People’s History Museum and Historic England are ‘seeking expressions of interest from educators and artists who are experienced in creating and delivering learning activities and resources for both formal and informal learners. Inspired by the Peterloo Massacre, and the themes of protest, democracy and freedom of speech.’ The general themes for this project are ‘Protest Music Art’.
The closing date for applications is 5 March.
Manchester Histories is leading a partnership of cultural organisations and communities in developing programme of events from June – August, supported by the new website:
You can follow the work of Manchester Histories at
https://manchesterhistories.co.uk/projects/peterloo2019
Saturday 9 March. 10am-4pm. From Pentrich to Peterloo: Legacies of Protest for Political Change, 1817-1819
Speakers: Professor Malcolm Chase (Leeds), Professor Robert Poole, UCLAN), Dr Matthew Roberts (Sheffield Hallam) and local historians
University of Nottingham & Pentrich and South Wingfield Revolution Group
Swanwick Hall School, Swanwick, Derbyshire, DE55 1AE.
Registration: 9.30am. Tickets: £5 including refreshments. To register, go to: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/go/PentrichNow
Pay on the day: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/go/PentrichDay
More details: Richard.Gaunt@nottingham.ac.uk
Sunday 7 April. 1pm. Peterloo Walk Manchester
May. Ballads and songs of Peterloo
Publication of book by Alison Morgan. A talk by her with Thrup’nny Bits performing can seen at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbKWlCEAa8Y
May. Peterloo. Witnesses to a Massacre Publication of graphic novel by Robert Poole and Polyp.
Saturday 18 May. 10.45am. Peterloo, 1819-2019 Conference
The People’s History Museum, Manchester
Speakers: Janette Martin (Manchester Uni/The John Rylands Library) and Mike Powell (PHM) on sources for Peterloo and the Manchester Histories Festival; Robert Poole (UCLAN) on Peterloo: a Manchester event; John Belchem (Liverpool Uni) on “Orator” Hunt, radical mobilisation and the Peterloo massacre; Katrina Navickas (Hertfordshire Uni) on The national as well as local significance of Peterloo in the history of the democratic movement; and Dr Joe Cozen (UCL) on The British left and the memory of Peterloo, 1819-1919
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/peterloo-1819-2019-tickets-54600032166
Thursday May 9. 2pm. Peterloo
Talk by Jacqueline Riding at Chipping Camden Literature Festival
http://www.campdenlitfest.co.uk/type27echild/peterloo
Riding is author of
Friday 28 June. Peterloo: From Stockport to Manchester
Talk by historian Robert Poole at Stockport Local Heritage Library
Friday 2 August. Peterloo Ballads and Songs
Alison Morgan will be speaking on the ballads and songs of Peterloo in Stockport https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-ballads-and-songs-of-peterloo-tickets-54754293566
Thursday 15 August. Peterloo
Talk by Jacqueline Riding at Manchester Histories Festival Peterloo 2019
National Trust People’s landscape’s project
Peterloo forms part of this project.
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/features/marking-the-bicentenary-of-the-peterloo-massacre-
Peterloo Memorial Campaign
http://www.peterloomassacre.org/history.html.
Jeremy Deller is the designer for the Peterloo Memorial
Heritage England video https://vimeo.com/156157535
Resources
Working Class Movement Library Ideas and Resources for Key Stages 3 and 4
https://www.wcml.org.uk/wcml/en/our-collections/learning-resources/ks3-4–history-resources
Historian Katrina Navikas’s website The Politics of Protest and Place includes a section on the Massacre:
http://protesthistory.org.uk/peterloo-massacre
The Peterloo Witness project has been collecting and transcribing ‘virtually all the eye-witness evidence for Peterloo – some 350 eye-witness accounts in all, together with information about over a thousand people who were there: victims, participants, witnesses, troops, reporters. ‘The aim is to make all this material available online in time to support the bicentenary commemorations in 2019. The work has been done by research assistants and volunteers, supported in various ways by the British Academy, the National Archives, the Manchester Histories Festival, and the universities of Hertfordshire and Central Lancashire.’ Those involved include the historian Robert Poole and the actress Maxine Peake. The project has loaded on to its website extracts from Wheeler’s Manchester Chronicle, The Manchester Observer and The Times, and the pamphlet on the trial of Henry Hunt, Samuel Bamford and others in York in 1820, and details of lists of the names of the dead and injured. http://peterloowitness1819.weebly.com
