PETERLOO MASSACRE 192nd ANNIVERSARY
Channel: Keith Dewsnup
Date: 2011-08-17

16th August 1819 was the date of the Peterloo Massacre. On this day in Manchester 60,000 men, women and children, dressed in their Sunday best had marched from the surrounding mill towns and gathered in Peters Fields, Manchester for a peaceful pro-democracy gathering.
The Yeomanry of the guard read the riot act to the crowd and attempted to arrest the speakers of the day. In the chaos that ensued 15 people were killed and hundreds were injured.
This event has been whitewashed/airbrushed out of history and I feel it is my job (as part of the Peterloo Memorial Campaign) to make people aware of this event. Therefore I have setup several groups on Facebook and filmed several of the anniversaries of this monumental ocassion in our history.
Ye are many, they are few!