Andrew Simpson

The Peterloo Massacre still has the power to shock and ranks alongside the Sharpville Massacre in South Africa in 1960 and the Kent State...

Now I am back with Peterloo and the dastardly actions of the Manchester Yeomanry who on August 16th, 1819, charged a peaceful crowd in St P...

The passage of 200 years has not dimmed the horror of the actions of the Manchester Yeomanry on that hot day in the August of 1819. The...

I am back with Henry “Orator” Hunt who the Chartist newspaper described as the “one of the most bold, most strenuous , most disinterested a...

Now for those who don’t know Henry ‘Orator’ Hunt was one of the outstanding Radicals of the early 19th century. Henry 'Orator' ...

There is I think a danger about the present coverage of Peterloo, which is that it begins to overshadow some of the other significant event...

Now anyone who is interested in the events of Peterloo, and can track their family back to Greater Manchester in the early 19th century wil...

William Fildes deserves more than history has so far allotted him. * Labour Party demonstration for Jobs, Birmingham, 1983 He was bor...

The simple answer is that it is not easy, for Sarah like so many of the casualties at Peterloo, was never likely to fall into official docu...

Now it has taken me a while to get around to watching Mike Leigh’s film on Peterloo and I am a tad puzzled. Henry Hunt circa 1820 The...

The events on the evening of August 16 at New Cross doesn’t even merit a footnote in books on Peterloo. A comment on the events of Pe...

Manchester, 1819 It is time for another two pictures from the collection of Manchester’s history of protest. I tried resisting using ...

Now, you can never have enough books on Peterloo, which brings me to the new one written by Graham Phythian, called simply Peterloo and pub...