Cathal McGuinness is a recent college graduate from Dublin, Ireland. He has been writing short stories and articles from the age of 15. He was awarded the George Dempsey prize for English Prose ...

An archaic law which came about as a direct reaction to the Peterloo Massacre is set to be repealed as part of a clean-up of obsolete legislation. The 1819 Unlawful Drilling Act is one of 328 set to ...

Andy Burnham’s scene-setting speech on Monday was delivered at the People’s History Museum in Manchester, formerly known as ...

"The corrupt order will come crashing down!!" Amazon Studios has debuted the first official teaser trailer for Peterloo, the latest film from acclaimed, Oscar-winning English filmmaker Mike Leigh ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: You’ve likely heard of the Battle of Waterloo, and perhaps you’ve even seen the 1970 film, Waterloo, which starred Rod Steiger as the infamous French emperor, Napoleon ...

John Harris’s excellent commentary on the 1819 Peterloo massacre (Peterloo shaped modern Britain, as much as any king or queen, 29 October) omitted any reference to the suffragette movement, founded ...

This year marks the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre, a critical event in British history. On August 16, 1819, a crowd of 60,000 to 100,000 protestors gathered peacefully on Manchester’s St.

Robbie Collin has been a film critic for 20 years, during which time his reviews have seen him temporarily blacklisted by two major studios, dressed down in front of a Bafta committee and thrown off a ...

The Peterloo Massacre is a defining moment in British history and one which shaped irrevocably the future of the working class, print journalism, and government. But Mike Leigh's Peterloo movie falls ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about cinema and TV series in Europe. Mike Leigh’s latest film recounts a forgotten historical event in the United Kingdom ...

Mike Leigh commemorates an infamous 19th century massacre in the Amazon-backed historical epic 'Peterloo,' the most ambitious and expensive film of his career. By Stephen Dalton Veteran British ...