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
Legacy Faculty/School/Department
Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
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