Peterloo 1819-2019

Curator of the Peterloo exhibition at The John Rylands Library

Janette Martin

Description
Conference hosted by the Society for the Study of Labour History on the significance of Peterloo 200 years on. 
Peterloo 1819-2019

The People’s History Museum, Manchester
Saturday 18th May 2019 

10.45: Arrive 
11.00: Welcome 
11.15 – 1.00: Papers 1, 2 & 3
Chair Dr Quentin Outram
Dr Janette Martin (University of Manchester/The John Rylands Library) and Mike Powell (PHM) 
Sources for Peterloo and the Manchester Histories Festival

Professor Robert Poole (UCLAN) 
Peterloo: a Manchester event
Professor John Belchem (University of Liverpool)
“Orator” Hunt, radical mobilisation and the Peterloo massacre
 
1.00 – 2.30: Break for lunch and an opportunity to see the Peterloo Exhibitions at the People’s History Museum (tour by Mike Powell) and the nearby John Rylands Library 
 
SSLH Exec Meeting takes place during the lunch break
 

2.30 – 4.15: Papers 4, 5 & 6
Chair – Dr Nicole Robertson
Dr Alison Morgan (University of Warwick)
“Rise Britons, Rise Now From Your Slumber”: Songs of Peterloo

Dr Katrina Navickas (University of Hertfordshire)
The national as well as local significance of Peterloo in the history of the democratic movement

Dr Joe Cozens (University College London)
The British left and the memory of Peterloo, 1819-1919

4.15 – 4.30 closing remarks

Post conference drinks in the <A HREF="https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g187069-d5916265-Reviews-Sir_Ralph_Abercromby-Manchester_Greater_Manchester_England.html" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Sir Ralph Abercrombie Pub</A> on Bootle Street
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