#Peterloo

[enbycrip]

ID: printed from a newspaper letters column:

“Don't Tell the Children about Peterloo

Teach them how Tommies defeated the Hun

The victorious glory of a war no one won

Despising the Kaiser

That prophet of Doom

Then get them reciting from Brooke

Not Sassoon.

Dish out paper poppies

But whatever you do

Don't tell the children about Peterloo.

Don't teach how landowners, soldiers and cops

Rode into Manchester

Our protests to stop.

Of Yeomanry charges on people unarmed

Of victims of violence inciting no harm

Legitimate grievances silenced by force

Battered by batons and trampled by horses

Where the Gates of Saint Peter let the Devil ride through, but

Don't tell the children

About Peterloo.

Throughout years of history lessons in a Salford school nobody ever mentioned Peterloo, a hugely significant social and politi- cal event in the struggle for democracy and representation. This poem examines the motives of those who would steer clear of it in the classrooms of Greater Manchester - TONY KINSELLA”.

This is so depressingly true.

And, tbh, why I want to go into history as a career. I doubt I’ll ever be well enough to teach children, though I might manage part-time lecturing. But I want to write history about queer, trans, disabled, poor, BIPOC. I want to write about class warfare and marginalisation and how our society actually operates, ideally where people can read it.

Link to the Wikipedia entry on the Peterloo Massacre for context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterloo_Massacre.

I was listening to a podcast about it in the car with my OH recently and it struck me that, if the occasional names of politicians in specific posts had been left out, I wouldn’t have been that surprised to hear the same basic details in a contemporary news report. Current criminalisation of protest by the UK Tory government has reached very similar levels as it had at this time, and they appear to have about the same level of scruples about violence towards protestors to break up peaceful, determined protest.

[empirearchives]

The early 19th century version of adding “gate” to the end of everything was adding “loo” after Waterloo:

[ediths-shades]

Men's costumes in Peterloo (2018).

Costume design by Jacqueline Durran.

requested by anonymous.

[28sonnetslater]

#13 - Seven Ages: Soldier http://dlvr.it/THxyfH

[totallyhussein-blog]

Manchester remembers Peterloo 1819

BANNERS were raised in Manchester on Saturday to mark the anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre more than 200 years ago and was reported on by The Morning Star newspaper.

Eighteen people died and hundreds were injured in the attack on textile workers and their families when sabre-wielding troops attacked a peaceful crowd of workers calling for democracy on August 16 1819.

On Saturday, trade unionists and activists led by the Public and Commercial Service’s samba band marched through Manchester city centre to rally at the Peterloo Monument which was erected in 2019 to mark the 200th anniversary of the attack.

On the 16th of August 1819 the huge open area around what's now St Peter's Square, Manchester, played host to an outrage against over 60,000 peaceful pro-democracy and anti-poverty protesters; an event which became known as The Peterloo Massacre.

According to the Peterloo Memorial Campaign, an estimated 18 people, including four women and a child, died from sabre cuts and trampling. Nearly 700 men, women and children received extremely serious injuries. All in the name of liberty and freedom from poverty.

The Massacre occurred during a period of immense political tension and mass protests. Fewer than 2% of the population had the vote, and hunger was rife with the disastrous corn laws making bread unaffordable.

[mea-cuppa-part-2]

Peterloo - All The King's Men, 2008

[genderqueerpond]

after the events at peterloo, itself not long after the vampire fiasco, Nyssa screaming, Nyssa breaking things, smashing her own scientific equipment--

she's never done anything like this before--

Nyssa wondering if they are even a force for good, if *she* is even good. if she can ever be good again.

Tegan holding her and saying of course she can. of course she is. the best person I have ever known. Tegan holding her until she stops shaking with tears, and kissing the top of her head.

[thatonestoreguy]

The Peterloo Massacre

The Fifth Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan make a very unexpected crash landing just outside 19th century Manchester. They’re welcomed to stay in the mansion of the factory owner who’s land they crashed on while the TARDIS repairs itself, but the Doctor can’t shake the feeling that something is amiss. It’s too late by the time he realises they’ve found themselves on the eve of the bloodiest day in Manchester history.

This is the rarest of Doctor Who stories, the pure historical. The only aliens here are the Doctor and Nyssa and the only time travel is the crash landing that strands them in this period. Of course that hardly means the crew is safe. To start, there is drama going on all around them. The Hurley estate the crew finds themselves on highlights all the strife of the early 19th century. The industrial revolution is in full swing and the gap between the haves and the have-nots has widened, causing a growing resentment that will soon reach a boiling point. The conditions in Hurley’s factory are appalling enough to the Doctor before he realizes what’s going to happen. The crew splits up to really explore this period from a number of angles. The growing tension as it becomes more and more clear that the character’s are walking into a disaster really ratchets up as the adventure continues.

The Peterloo Massacre is a real historic event. A peaceful demonstration for parliamentary reform and improved wages was violently broken up by local militia. The characters the crew connects with are fictional, but the tragedies of the day are very real. The adventure does not shy away from these tragedies either. The audio should come with a trigger warning for the level of violence and devastation. This is probably one of the darker pieces of Doctor Who media you’ll find and the fact the events depicted are true to life only adds to that. The episode doesn’t try to sugar coat it or glorify it either. The massacre itself occurs only a little more more than half way through the story. The real angst of the audio comes from the long time we spend in the immediate aftermath of the event. We don’t just see the senseless violence of the moment, but the suffering that follows.

This is a very sobering story. I think it’s beautifully written and really makes you feel for the people involved. It’s not one to listen to if you’re looking for a fun adventure, but it really goes to show the range of stories it’s possible to tell within the worlds of Doctor Who.

[werewolfetone]

People who have seen it can u tell me is the film of small things like these proper a christmas movie that would be weird to watch outside of xmas like a christmas carol or is it just a movie that happens to take place during xmas like. uh. cal

[yourbespokeartisanalapocalypse]

Today is the anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre in Manchester, 1819, one of the most important events in England in the nineteenth century.

What happened? Well... here's as good a description any...

On 16 August 1819 Mary Fildes and members of the Female Reform Society marched to St.Peter’s Fields in the centre of Manchester with many other people to angrily demand the end of political corruption, hunger and unemployment. The women said, “Every succeeding night brings with it new terror, so that we are sick of life and weary of a world, where poverty, wretchedness, tyranny and injustice, have so long been permitted to reign amongst men.”

As Mary and a peaceful crowd of tens of thousands of men, women and children listened to a speech by radical orator Henry Hunt, they were attacked without warning by the military, sent in by Manchester’s unelected authorities, resulting in many deaths and injuries. Mary only narrowly escaped serious injury as horsemen slashed at her with sabres. This shocking event became known as Peterloo Massacre.

Source

The effect? The newspapers were horrified but the government knee jerk response was to pass the hugely oppressive Six Acts which aimed to prevent the working classes from engaging in or accessing politics of any kind (perhaps the worst of which was a tax on newspapers which kept the news out of economic reach and wasn't fully repealed until the mid century. There was a vibrant illegal press in response to this though).

The massacre quickly entered into folk history and served as a rallying cry for the democratic movements that followed.

Find out more from the People's History Museum here and the Society for the Study of Labour History here.

[loki-zen]

commiserations to @loving-n0t-heyting for somehow finding tumblrinas who would have been on the wrong side of Peterloo and having them all up in its notes

[timkontheunsure]

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[cliffordthurlow]

Bob Dylan and the Judas Call

Bob Dylan and the Judas call are legend. What’s less well known is that this seminal moment in rock history had roots going back to the Peterloo Massacre in 1819. Dylan on stage with The Hawks,in Manchester, 1966: Photo Mark Makin. They sat there not knowing what to expect. The atmosphere was tense – one fan described it as ‘electric.’ He’d seen amplifiers and a drum kit on the stage when he…

[whats-in-a-sentence]

No widely popular songs hymned companionate and egalitarian marriages, but the radical Samuel Bamford wrote tender love poems to his wife and children.

How happy may we be, my love!

How happy may we be,

If we our humble means improve,

My wife, my child, and me.

Our home shall be a turtle's nest,

Where duty, peace, and love,

Shall make its inmates truly blest,

And sorrow far remove.

And if the world upon us frown,

Still peace serene is ours;

It cannot bear the free mind down,

With all its tyrant powers:

For if they bear me far away,

And bind me with a chain,

Our nestling will beside thee stay –

Then do not, love, complain.

As an active Chartist, handloom weaver and protester at the Peterloo demonstration, Bamford made it clear that the happy marriage depended upon the couple improving their 'humble means' and braving tyranny.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

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[idiotwithanaccount]

so the anti-strike laws have passed the final stage in the house of commons.

in other words the country is about to hit rock bottom and rishi sunak is operating the drill