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Source: The Guardian For the beating heart of the industrial north, the morning of 16 August, 1819, was no ordinary one. In what stands today as Manchester’s St Peter’s Square, an estimated 60,000 men, women and children gathered in peaceful solidarity to speak out in hope of a time when their rights to emancipation andContinue reading “Remembering Peterloo: A Silenced Voice with a Resounding Echo”