2-325-631 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Massacre of Peterloo, or Britons Strike Home', 1819 (1904). On 16th August 1819, soldiers of the 15th Hussars charging an unarmed crowd gathered on St Peter's Field in Manchester to hear speeches supporting parliamentary reform and the repeal of Corn Laws. 11 people were killed and between 400 and 700 wounded. A print from Social England, edited by HD Traill and JS Mann, volume VI. (Cassell and Company Limited, London, 1904).