Peterloo Massacre: A turning point in UK history? - BBC Newsnight 

3:28 "There's no blame attached to the magistrates" - says a descendent of one of the magistrates. What a load of despicable blame-shifting nonsense. You should be ashamed of your ancestor, not proud.

My great-great-great grandfather was at St Peters Field on the day, selling jelly vodkas to the crowd.

Fuch, the conservatives STILL defending the undefendable and trying to re-write the narrative/history.

The bare-faced cheek of a Conservative Lord pontificating and trying to downplay working-class history, nothing changes, absolutely shameful. Let every student of history watch and take note.

Faced by a show of strength, the Manchester magistrates decided to ‘bring the matter to issue’. One of them declared: If the agitators of the country determine to persevere in their meeting, it will necessarily prove a trial of strength and there must be a CONFLICT’

It took until 1945 for ordinary people to gain a little democracy.

That arrogant Mr. Cornish is something else ! just shows the "Bastards" are still lurking in the shadows, ok Sir ,leave Peterloo go and read some Irish and or Indian history, they did it again and again ! Proud indeed ! Shame on you and him !!

PLEASE PUT PORTUGUESE SUBTITLE IN THE VIDEO , THIS VIDEO IS SO INTERESTING , I WOULD LIKE TO PUT THIS VIDEO FOR MY STUDENTS IN THE SCHOOL .

WOW, watch this guy in the middle train-wreck and be such an inhuman comment. Amazing how the other two seem to care so much, they just move forward. GUH

Peterloo is a northen thing, now the south media gives a shit, I question why?

So nothing has changed.

Even back then yrs ago the world was fucked😢😣😔

Not with the bigoted right wing BBC utterly riddled with tory bias😢

We live in a democracy, sure. Well Hermann Goeing had some good takes on how any type of society, regarding how the people can be persuaded into believing they need to go war.

It wasn't about suffrage, far too early, but it lead to the later Chartism movement as it was such an extreme event, but well understood in the country as a whole. Hunt was a Radical, thus inspired by the French Revolution which had executed the French nobility, resulted in the Terror and lead to the contemporary horrors of the Napoleonic Wars. The meeting was a direct response to the dangerous Corn Laws which protected the price of British grain for the nobility, represented by Tories and Whigs in a rotten Parliament, and spread hunger among the industrial population which was still growing. Peterloo inspired the British political sense of slow compromise. Sad how modern politicians know Jack sh*t about history but are willing to try to sound convincing on every topic. The fact that suffrage still to this day bears a residence qualification not at pace with the faster turnover off addresses for a good part of the community is an outrage causing many to be disenfranchised by lifestyle - that and the terrible practice of the BBC and debt collectors to use electoral roles in order to demand money from the poor. As for the worries below about why it isn't taught at school - it is between KS4 - KS5 or post 14 when children are able to understand it; the worry for most historians in a democracy is that history is ignored as it is an optional subject at 14. Depending of course on whether you prefer our Parliament to be staffed by non experts in culture and precedent, economics and society.

Just watched the film, we were bought up in ancoats George Leigh st went to st michaels then St Albans this was mentioned once when we were taken to a museum in Manchester, a we saw a sabre from the massacre,the relevance, and social importance of this was never explained, which was a real shame. Nothing has changed, you need to read. “ the ragged trousered philanthropist” a true classic and things still haven’t changed. John h

how much does it cost to clean teeth in Britain ffs

This was so sad .....each side blaming each other.

very funny that people connect this with the eu and brexit.

One example of why we all need guns and ammo

Those incendiary rebels needed a free balloon ride!!! Damn the proles

Enough js already please bbc

Its "there are", not "there's two things" why are people starting to talk like toddlers?

A film by Mike Leigh is like watching a Khmer Rouge or Ho Chi Minh sponsored propaganda film. Peterloo was important but the way the far left talk about it you would think it was the British Bolshevik revolution. I studied it at A level, I would move it into higher level degree study.

No. Just more pc bollocks

It was years ago bore off