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August 16 2018
The Peterloo massacre

The Peterloo massacre is the bloodiest clash in British political history yet even those living nearby don’t know about it.
“From where I grew up in Children at the school, Great Cheetham Street could walk to where it happened at Peterloo in less than half an hour.
But nobody took the opportunity to take the children out from school and marched them there to say ‘this happened here’, which is remarkable,
An estimated 18 people demanding political reform and protesting against poverty were killed and more than 650 injured when cavalry troops charged the crowd, an incident that led to the creation of
Free Speech in Newspapers in England.