Peterloo Massacre: 200th Anniversary

All this week on Granada Reports, we're marking the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo massacre.

At least 18 people were killed when forces charged on a peaceful protest in St Peter's Fields in Manchester on the 16th of August 1819.

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Manchester has paid tribute to those who died protesting for their rights two hundred years ago. Elaine Willcox reports

Denise Southworth's ancestor Mays Hays was killed in what's now known as the Peterloo Massacre.

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Names of the Peterloo dead read out two centuries on

Manchester has paid tribute to those who died protesting for their rights two hundred years ago. Elaine Willcox reports
Today is two-hundred years since the Peterloo Massacre

Denise Southworth's ancestor Mays Hays was killed in what's now known as the Peterloo Massacre.