Commemorations are taking place across England this week to mark the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre, one of the most controversial events in British political history. Peterloo: a solid ...

Commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre has revealed that the social tensions that gave rise to that critical event of British history remain unresolved. On August 16, 1819 a ...

The Pitch: A dramatic retelling of the Peterloo Massacre, Mike Leigh’s Peterloo tracks the years, people, and socioeconomic conditions that lead to the tragic events of August 16, 1819 in Manchester.

Imagine a political conflagration that pits the impoverished against the elite. A working-class crowd assembles in a town square, calling for higher wages and access to the voting booth. Local ...

LONDON — Mike Leigh‘s next project will look at Peterloo — the 1819 massacre by British government forces at a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St. Peter’s Field in Manchester, England, when 700 people ...

On Saturday, around 500 people attended a rally at the site of St Peter’s Field, Manchester, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre. Feeder marchers from cities and towns ...

Not many Americans know about the Peterloo Massacre, where—on a lovely afternoon in August 1819 in St. Peter’s Square in Manchester, England—sixty British cavalry attacked an assembly of 80,000 ...

For his next project, lovable, rosy-cheeked, St. Nick-like imp-man Mike Leigh will be tackling the 1819 Peterloo Massacre, in which a large crowd of pro-reform demonstrators in Manchester were ...

The new movie from acclaimed British director Mike Leigh takes on the Peterloo massacre of 1819 in Manchester, England, in which 18 people were killed and more than 500 were injured. It was a ...

Cinematographer Dick Pope pulled from Kurosawa, iconic illustrations, and documentaries for the crowning achievement of his career. The Peterloo Massacre was a massive undertaking in terms of scale ...