© Trustees of the British Museum The link below on this page will take you to a folder containing materials for a three-lesson enquiry for Year 8 students (13/14 year-olds) focused on historical in…

This guided history walk highlights stories of Manchester’s female founders and entrepreneurs across three centuries.

On August: no home but the struggle In the labour movement calendar August is often seen as a quiet month. Of course as Mayhew’s costermonger had it when it seems quiet, preparations are going on f…

Beer & Peterloo Update 2021. The excellent Peterloo Memorial Campaign updated the list of those known to have been present at Peterloo and made it searchable. Accordingly I’ve updated the…

Its 207 years since the Peterloo Massacre, when 60,000 or so gathered in central Manchester to call for the vote and cheaper bread. The Magistrates sent in the Yeomanry, the local business communit…

Peterloo Massacre survivor William Cheatham's history has been told for the first time by a historian.

Tickets for Chartism Day 2026 are now available. This year’s event takes place on Saturday 19 September at Friends Meeting House, Warwick, and is open to all. Chartism Day 2026, 19 September,…

156th anniversary of the death of the black leader of London Chartism, William Cuffay. Still no London memorial. All history matters The black leader of London Chartism in 1848 William Cuffay died …

The jug commemorating the 1819 Peterloo massacre will be displayed at the People's History Museum.

A new graphic novel running through the lives and ideas of humanists, both well known and unjustly forgotten, has just been announced. Polyp, COURAGE [click to enlarge] Paul Fitzgerald (Polyp), a M…

Experience the powerful fusion of progressive folk rock with classic rock, indie and blues as The Reformers of Peterloo showcase Peterloo in Rock.  The show begins in the immediate aftermath […]

YouTube video by Oliver Sykes Journalism

YouTube video by Oliver Sykes Journalism

An invitation to the fourth in our Freethought History Webinar series.

Cover of the 1963 hardback edition E P Thompson & the Making of the English Working Class. Made in August E P Thompson signed the contract for the Making of the English Working Class in August …

So much is being written about Peterloo in this bicentenary year that I am reluctant to pitch in. But I think it is worth commenting on the ways in which memories of the 1819 massacre were co-opted…