PETERLOO: Witnesses to a Massacre.

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  • Source:
    New Internationalist. Jul/Aug2019, Issue 520, p40-45. 6p. 1 Color Photograph, 9 Cartoon or Caricatures.
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    • Subject Terms:
      MASSACRES; COLLECTIVE memory; WITNESSES; LEGISLATIVE reform; TEXTILE workers
    • Abstract:
      The article highlights the history of Peterloo that known as the Peterloo Massacre and about the Manchester. Topics discussed Manchester represents as expanding commercial centre and known as Cottonopolis; mentions the conditions like trade slumps that undercut by cheap labor and increasing mechanization; and highlights the organized groups of women reformers who were dressed in white to reflect the purity.