posted on 2023-09-01, 14:25authored byJohn Gardner
This chapter focusses on how the Church was implicated in the Peterloo Massacre. Through fresh research at the National Archives I have found a network of priests and clergymen acting as spies for the Home Office in the period around the massacre in 1819.
History
Refereed
Yes
Number of pages
312
Series
Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Place of publication
Edinburgh, UK
Title of book
Commemorating Peterloo: Violence, Resilience, and Claim-making during the Romantic Era