Peterloo Massacre at Peterloo was the number of women present. Female reform societies had been formed in North West England during June and July 1819, the first in Britain. Many of the women were dressed distinctively in white, and some formed all-female contingents, carrying their own flags. Of the 654 recorded casualties, at least 168 were women, four of whom died either at St Peter's Field or later as a result of their wounds. It has been estimated that less than 12 per cent of the crowd was made up of women, suggesting that they were at significantly greater risk of injury
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