COUNCIL PETITION RE CLEANING THE PETERLOO MEMORIAL We've loads of paper signatures but could do with more on the e-petition. Please sign now! (Ignore any glitch message; the link works, petition is live.) democracy.manchester.gov.uk/mgEPetitionD... Polyp explains all: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mcE...

COUNCIL PETITION RE CLEANING THE PETERLOO MEMORIAL We've loads of paper signatures but could do with more on the e-petition. Please sign now! (Ignore any glitch message; the link works, petition is live.) democracy.manchester.gov.uk/mgEPetitionD... Polyp explains all: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mcE...

Reminder! The next Freethought History Webinar, ft. Paul Fitzgerald aka Polyp on Thomas Paine, is happening on 9 Sep. Sign up now! @polypartist.bsky.social freethinker.co.uk/2025/08/free...

E P Thompson signed the contract for the Making of the English Working Class in August 1959 and delivered it in August 1963. It remains in print. He was meant to deliver 60,000 words covering 1790-1921. In fact he wrote 100,000 words on the period 1790-1830s 👇 wp.me/p15p2Q-eV0

If you came to the Peterloo commemoration on 16 August you may have signed a petition to the council asking to add an anti-mould treatment to the annual cleaning of the memorial. There's an online version to sign at democracy.manchester.gov.uk/mgEPetitionD... More at www.facebook.com/groups/33595...

Thanks to all those who joined us at the Peterloo Memorial today to remember those who were killed on St Peter's Field in 1819 during the campaign for democracy. #Peterloo2025 #Peterloo

Today!

The #Peterloo massacre took place #OnThisDay 16 August 1819. How did the Chartists remember it? chartistancestors.blog/2019/05/10/p...

#OtD 16 Aug 1819 the Peterloo massacre took place when British cavalry charge into a crowd of 60,000-80,000 working-class people demanding the right to vote. 15 were murdered and up to 700 injured, including many women. Learn more in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/2018/11/07/e...

The #Peterloo massacre took place in Manchester, #OnThisDay 16 August 1819. Our free resource pack offers a guide to sources in the archives. sslh.org.uk/2019/05/01/s...

206th anniversary of Peterloo, Monday 16th August 1819, central Manchester. 60,000 protested for the vote. Local businessmen on horseback cut them down. The Magistrate who sent them in 👇 wp.me/p15p2Q-eQC

Manchester, August 16, 1819.

And today, 2.10-2.50 this afternoon...

Also tomorrow:

One day to go!

(They do mean 6 September 2025!)

Also @thejohnrylands.bsky.social is running a Rare Reads drop-in session on Peterloo on Friday 15 August, 2.10-2.50pm in the Reading Room. events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...

11am: Peterloo walk from Central Library www.newmanchesterwalks.com/event/26289/ [1pm: Peterloo commemoration] 3pm (sold out) 8pm (available): Peterloo Rock Musical at 53Two www.ticketsource.co.uk/53two/e-jqlmlx Our Peterloo Tapestry will be in the 53Two bar, with replica items from the movie.

PETERLOO COMMEMORATION 2025 Saturday 16 August, 1pm We'll meet at the Peterloo Memorial in front of Manchester Central for the reading of the names of those who died in 1819. Bring flowers if you can, especially if you've got some from a garden! There are two other Peterloo events on 16 August:

PETERLOO COMMEMORATION 2025 Saturday 16 August, 1pm We'll meet at the Peterloo Memorial in front of Manchester Central for the reading of the names of those who died in 1819. Bring flowers if you can, especially if you've got some from a garden! There are two other Peterloo events on 16 August:

185 years ago this week, in a pub in Manchester delegates met from 5 days to form Britain's first working class party, The National Charter Association👇 wp.me/p15p2Q-eF3

PETERLOO 206th ANNIVERSARY SATURDAY 16 AUGUST 1pm At the PETERLOO MEMORIAL, by Manchester Central/GMex Our annual commemoration of the dead is at 1pm Saturday 16 August. We'd really like to see a LOT of flowers on the memorial this year - it'd be great if folk can bring some from their gardens, etc.

New on the website: Professor Peter Gurney challenges the dominance of liberal readings of the Chartist movement and its aims. sslh.org.uk/2025/06/20/t...

OF INTEREST TO CHARTISTS! Come Monday, I will be starting a funded project with the Co-operative Heritage Trust archive to create a research resource highlighting points of interaction between Chartism and co-operation. More details below: dnhamiltonblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/07/a...

The 1832 Reform Act received royal assent #OnThisDay 1832. This blog from our editor Philip Salmon provides an overview of the Act’s significance and legacy: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2022/06/07/1...

Tickets for a rock musical about Peterloo on Saturday 16 August this year are now on sale. It's at 53two on Watson Street, just round the corner from the Peterloo Memorial. We'll be holding our annual commemoration at 1pm, so that would be handy for the 3pm show - but there's another one at 8pm.

Dr Murray Tremellen will be speaking at tonight's IHR Parliaments, Politics & People Seminar about 'The Speaker's House and the Evolution of the Speakership, 1794-1834'. To register for the seminar, taking place at 5:30 p.m. via Zoom, please follow this link:

205 years ago, 5th April 1820. A rising in Scotland linked with rising in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Lancashire & Carlisle, for democratic rights in the aftermath of the Peterloo Massacre, August 1819 in Manchester 👇 wp.me/p15p2Q-5qE

#C19th #Manchester #TradeUnions Could you find Carpenters Hall on a map of Manchester? It was once hugely important to Chartists, trade unionists, mormons and teenagers on a night out. But where was it and why did it matter? www.chartistancestors.co.uk/carpenters-h...

TOMORROW! Thursday 20 March, 8pm at Halle at St Michael's (Ancoats) Sean Cooney's Peterloo musical with Sam Carter and @elizacarthy.bsky.social. manchesterfolk.com/event/mff202...

If you're up for supporting this skeptic comic book crowdfunder, an early boost is really helpful for its momentum! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom... Thanks to everyone who has chipped in already!

A reminder that Sean Cooney, who created the songs for 'Rise Up' at Peterloo 2019, is putting on Peter's Field, his new Peterloo musical, at Manchester Folk Festival with @elizacarthy.bsky.social and Sam Carter. Thursday 20 March, 7.30pm, Hallé at St Michael's. manchesterfolk.com/event/mff202...

@peterloomemorial.bsky.social friendsofmarsdenlibrary.org.uk/event/floren...

Died #OTD 1835, Henry Hunt. MP for Preston 1830-32, Hunt is most famed as a radical orator, and his involvement in the 60,000 strong rally at St. Peter's Field, Manchester in 1819. Find out more about the unfolding events dubbed the 'Peterloo Massacre':

@peterloomemorial.bsky.social Just to double check folk know- this year 16th August falls on Sat, so reading of names ceremony is at 1pm. Will be a lively anniversary, there's a grassroots Peterloo rock musical same day, venue very near the site- shows at 3pm / 8pm, details to follow!

We're looking forward to hearing Dr Caitlin Kitchener speak next Tuesday at the Parliaments, Politics and People seminar about early 19thC radical material culture (including a rare surviving Peterloo banner). Find out more and how to join online here: historyofparliament.com/2025/01/22/p... #19thC

@peterloomemorial.bsky.social At last we seem to have some actual information about The Britons... well done, Confidentials... but it's not exactly good news. confidentials.com/manchester/b...

Much more worrying news about the Briton's Protection this week, after last year's report that the pub and its unique style had been saved. It's now reported that Heineken have taken back control of the pub and are making "infrastructure upgrades". www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/foo...

Hope to see some of you at this free Manchester event, mon 20th Jan. I'll be giving an extra focus on Paine's relationship with science and reson... www.facebook.com/events/92504...

Look forward to seeing the 2025 People’s History Museum @phm.org.uk banner exhibition. Opens in Manchester on Saturday 18 January, and runs all year. sslh.org.uk/2025/01/04/p...

We're glad to see this piece in CAMRA's magazine, announcing that our home from home, the Briton's Protection pub on Great Bridgewater Street, has been saved, with a ten-year agreement between the management team responsible for its unique and much-loved style and owners Star Heineken.

@peterloomemorial.bsky.social Two dates for your diaries, both at the Britons Protection in Manchester. Peterloo The Rock Musical by the Reformers of Peterloo; Friday 15th August 2025 at 20:00 and Saturday 16th August 2025 at 15:00. Ticket details to follow

Message from graphic artist Polyp, who used to be @SbonesTompaine and @PeterlooBook on ex-Twitter. He's been totally locked out by Musk &co and has ascended to the great blue sky at @polypartist.bsky.social

A future place of pilgrimage on Briggate! I wasn’t able to be there, but very grateful to fellow Chartism enthusiast Alison Denham for photos of the day. chartistancestors.blog/2024/12/02/b...

Lovely couple of hours away from the manic pup to sing with @commonerschoir.bsky.social for the Northern Star blue plaque unveiling. The Chartist newspaper was an important part of Leeds' radical history and singing in the beautiful Leeds Library was quite special.