Peterloo Massacre Regency England, parliamentary reform had come of age." The Skelmanthorpe Flag is believed to have been made in Skelmanthorpe, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, in 1819. It was in part made to honour the victims of the Peterloo Massacre. The Free Trade Hall, home of the Anti-Corn Law League, was built partly as a "cenotaph raised on the shades of the victims" of Peterloo. Until 2007 the massacre was commemorated by a blue plaque on the wall of the present building, the third to occupy the site, now the Radisson Hotel. It was regarded as a less than appropriate
Robert Poole (historian) Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum, to look at the recently-acquired papers of Arthur C. Clarke. Poole's forthcoming book "Peterloo: the English Uprising," (OUP, 2019) will provide the standard account of the1819 Peterloo massacre in Manchester, on which he has written articles in "Past and Present", "History", "Labour History Review," and edited collections. He is historical adviser to the Peterloo 2019 commemoration programme, run jointly by Manchester Histories and the People's History Museum, and to the 2017-18 community project by ReelMcr, 'Our Sam, Middleton man'.He was instrumental in bringing to the John Rylands Library a full set of the