Tweeting first about Peterloo & 1819, then @200Magazine which reported events in 1822/23 in the style of today. Archive: https://xitter.cf/t.co/Mh8hSZGpGk
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Reporting the news from 1823 retweeted
Thanks to all who joined us today at the 207th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre, to honour the 18 who lost their lives in the struggle for democracy. There were plenty of wreaths - our own, the council's, the TUC's - plus flowers laid beside the names of those who died. (1/3)
ALT The Peterloo Memorial, a series of concentric rings in different coloured stones, bearing the names of the dead and the towns from which campaigners for democracy marched into Manchester. Four wreaths ascend the rings.
Reporting the news from 1823 retweeted
The #PeterlooMassacre took place #OnThisDay in 1819.
Established to counter French invasion and domestic unrest, the yeomanry were increasingly used to suppress public disputes.
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Reporting the news from 1823 retweeted
TODAY Sunday 16 August is the 207th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre.
We'll be reading the names of the dead and laying flowers at the Peterloo Memorial in front of Manchester Central at 1pm.
(The TUC are meeting there at 12 noon but have promised they will finish in time!)
ALT A wreath in red, white and green, the colours of 19th-century English republicans.
Reporting the news from 1823 retweeted
Thanks to all those who joined us at the Peterloo Memorial today to remember those who were killed on St Peter's Field in 1819 during the campaign for democracy.
#Peterloo2025 #Peterloo
ALT Lord Mayor Carmine Grimshaw reading the details of Peterloo victim Sarah Jones
ALT Remembering two-year-old William Fildes, the first victim of Peterloo
ALT Remembering the dead around the Peterloo Memorial
ALT The story of Edmund Dawson, read by a relative
Reporting the news from 1823 retweeted
The archive of 11 editions of @200Magazine has a new home - on the website of the fantastic British Association for Local History @BALHNews
New on the @BALHNews website, the 11 editions of @200Magazine reported what was happening two centuries ago in 1822 and 1823 when George IV, the Duke of Wellington, Beethoven, Shelley, Turner, Telford and Madame Tussaud were among the news-makers. ow.ly/aR2A50PRQqJ
ALT An infographic showing the highlights of the 200 Magazine
The archive of 11 editions of @200Magazine has a new home - on the website of the fantastic British Association for Local History @BALHNews
New on the @BALHNews website, the 11 editions of @200Magazine reported what was happening two centuries ago in 1822 and 1823 when George IV, the Duke of Wellington, Beethoven, Shelley, Turner, Telford and Madame Tussaud were among the news-makers. ow.ly/aR2A50PRQqJ
ALT An infographic showing the highlights of the 200 Magazine
The website of the terrific British Association for Local History @BALHNews is a fitting new home for the 11 editions of @200Magazine which strove to report the news from 1822 and 1823 in every part of the UK and Ireland. Check out the archive at balh.org.uk/200-magazine
New on the website of @BALHNews , the 11 editions of @200Magazine reported what was happening two centuries ago in 1822 and 1823 when George IV, the Duke of Wellington, Beethoven, Shelley, Turner, Telford and Madame Tussaud were among the news-makers. balh.org.uk/200-magazine
Reporting the news from 1823 retweeted
@200Magazine ran from June 2022 to May 2023, reporting the news from two centuries ago but in the style of today. Now its archive of 11 editions has a new home, the website of the British Association for Local History @BALHNews at balh.org.uk/200-magazine
ALT An infographic showing some of the highlights of the 200 magazine
Reporting the news from 1823 retweeted
#OTD in 1819 the Peterloo Massacre took place near Manchester, and in response to it P.B. Shelley wrote The Masque of Anarchy:
Rise like lions after slumber,
In unvanquishable number
Shake your chains to Earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you —
Ye are many — they are few
The Peterloo Massacre of peaceful pro-democracy demonstrators happened on this day 204 years ago. The dead are being mourned in Manchester today. This was how @Live1819 'live tweeted' the day's tragic events on the bicentenary in 2019. xitter.cf/i/events/1162399703264…
Setting off shortly for the annual Peterloo commemoration. Meet at the Peterloo Memorial (in front of Manchester Central) at 5.45 for 6pm, today (Wednesday 16 August), for the reading of the names of those who died and the laying of flowers.
ALT The reading of the names at the Peterloo Memorial at the 2022 commemoration. A group of people carrying wreaths and flowers, and holding cards with the names of the dead.
May's new edition of @200Magazine is out now, but will sadly be the last. (Not enough readers, too costly and time-consuming!) Catch all 11 editions at 200livinghistory.info until August. We're looking for a long-term home for them after then.
Big names of the 1820s are all there in May's new edition of @200Magazine which reports the news from then in the language of 2023. There's Beethoven, Lord Byron, George IV, Liszt, Walter Scott's new book, and rail pioneer George Stephenson for starters at 200livinghistory.info
From Ireland in the May 1823 edition of @200Magazine Daniel O'Connell founds a new group to fight for Catholic emancipation, and Robert Owen's plans for new communities to tackle poverty & lack of jobs are subversive says the church. It's at 200livinghistory.info @newlanarkwhs
May's edition of @200Magazine reports the news from this month in 1823, including a big move for the planned Stockton & Darlington Railway, a riot in Stirling, and from Brighton, the latest news about King George's gout. It's at 200livinghistory.info @fsdr1825 @BrightonMuseums
May's edition of @200Magazine (reporting the news from 1823) is now online at 200livinghistory.info but will be the last. It's costing too much in ££ and time & just not enough readers - but thanks if you were or are among them. All 11 editions stay online to August at least.
May's new edition of @200Magazine is now online at 200livinghistory.info, with the foreign secretary accused of "monstrous truckling and tergiversation" and Beethoven bestowing (maybe) his "weihekuss" on Franz Liszt, aged 11. We explain what that meant & shine a light on 1823.
There's big news from Westminster in the new May edition of @200Magazine reporting the news from 1823. A duel between the foreign secretary and a top Whig is just averted, MPs vote against reforming themselves, and there's a slavery stitch-up. Find it at 200livinghistory.info
May's @200Magazine reports the news of this month in 1823, including the doings of two kings, three future PMs, Ireland's 'liberator', the biggest name in classical music, the poet who was mad, bad & dangerous to know, & the father of the railways. It's at 200livinghistory.info
