The Pitch: A dramatic retelling of the Peterloo Massacre, Mike Leigh’s Peterloo tracks the years, people, and socioeconomic conditions that lead to the tragic events of August 16, 1819 in Manchester.

The National Trust is launching a project inspired by the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre to explore landscapes and places linked with dramatic social change. Projects involving artists ...

LONDON — Mike Leigh‘s next project will look at Peterloo — the 1819 massacre by British government forces at a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St. Peter’s Field in Manchester, England, when 700 people ...

In the Sir Ralph Abercromby pub, 200 years ago, they will have talked about the rising cost of living, falling workers’ pay, and Britain’s trading arrangements with the rest of the world. Back then, ...

For his next project, lovable, rosy-cheeked, St. Nick-like imp-man Mike Leigh will be tackling the 1819 Peterloo Massacre, in which a large crowd of pro-reform demonstrators in Manchester were ...

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 ...

Included with your Prime membership. Internationally acclaimed and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mike Leigh portrays one of the bloodiest episodes in British history, the infamous Peterloo Massacre of ...

Included with your Prime membership. Internationally acclaimed and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mike Leigh portrays one of the bloodiest episodes in British history, the infamous Peterloo Massacre of ...