Inside History: Protest. Revolt & Reform
For our next issue we take a closer look at the theme of Protest from the events of Peterloo to the fall of the Berlin. Inside we cover a whole range of historical protests and the individuals who led the charge for change. This issues includes:
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, The Suffragettes, Billie Holiday and the role music has played in protests, The Civil Rights Movement, Protest and Sport, We are the People: The Fall of the Berlin Wall, Bloody Sunday at Trafalgar Square, and much much more.
For our next issue we take a closer look at the theme of Protest from the events of Peterloo to the fall of the Berlin. Inside we cover a whole range of historical protests and the individuals who led the charge for change. This issues includes:
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, The Suffragettes, Billie Holiday and the role music has played in protests, The Civil Rights Movement, Protest and Sport, We are the People: The Fall of the Berlin Wall, Bloody Sunday at Trafalgar Square, and much much more.
PETERLOOAt previous meetings, the authorities had been unable tocapture the radical colours and had suffered somehumiliating rebuffs. The volunteer Yeomanry atManchester were determined to reverse these defeats.When he heard the women would be on the platformagain at Manchester, the Bolton magistrate and spymasterColonel Fletcher wrote privately that such meetings “oughtto be suppressed, even though in such suppression, avigour beyond the strict letter of the law may be used in sodoing”. With Fletcher looking on, this was exactly whathappened at Peterloo.‘Women beaten to theground by truncheons’Mary Fildes, president of the Manchester FemaleReformers, is depicted in prints waving a radical flag fromthe front of the platform as the troops attack. She guardedher flag until the last minute, then jumped from theplatform, catching her white dress on a nail and being cutby a sabre as she struggled to get free.As she ran, she was beaten to the ground by a specialconstable who seized her embroidered handkerchief-flag,and then dodged another sabre blow and escaped intohiding for the next fortnight – although badly wounded shesurvived and continued to campaign for the vote.Others were arrested in her stead and detained for dayswithout trial in wretched conditions. One of them,Elizabeth Gaunt, suffered a miscarriage afterwards – herunborn child is listed as one of the victims of Peterloo onthe new memorial in Manchester.George Cruikshank’s famous graphic images of troopsattacking defenceless women and children formed theenduring image of Peterloo in the public mind. After thispropaganda disaster, next time round, in 1832, thegovernment dared not risk sending in troops againstunarmed crowds of reformers gathered in cities such asBirmingham, Manchester and Leeds. The House of Lordsbacked down at the third time of asking and the GreatReform Act was passed.Behind Britain’s famous long history of gradual reform laythe shock of Peterloo. And behind the granting of thefranchise to more men lay the bravery of women.Visit The Conversation for more great historical andpolitical articles at www.theconversation.com/ukCaricature by George Cruikshank depicting the charge upon the rally08 INSIDE HISTORY
PETERLOOA print published on 27 August 1819 depicting Hunt's arrest by the constables(Public Domain)INSIDE HISTORY 09
- Page 1: ISSUE 7VOLUME 1HISTORYbraveryUK £6
- Page 4 and 5: INSIDETHIS ISSUE06Peterloo: How wom
- Page 6 and 7: PETERLOOA coloured print of the Pet
- Page 10 and 11: REBECCA RIOTSPROTEST &PETTICOATSTHE
- Page 12 and 13: To some, John Brown was a revolutio
- Page 14: For Brown, the continued talk of th
- Page 17 and 18: Bringing Shields Green to life is D
- Page 19 and 20: cynical about their motives. Their
- Page 21 and 22: Bloody Sunday, 1887. This engraving
- Page 23 and 24: 20th CenturyIn 1909, Clara Lemlich
- Page 25 and 26: or risk a hard cold winter without
- Page 27 and 28: “Remember thedignity of yourwoman
- Page 29 and 30: (Above) Christabel Pankhurst, Flora
- Page 31 and 32: months previously and been utterly
- Page 33 and 34: WSPU’s newspaper, Suffragette, wa
- Page 35 and 36: The drive behind Rosa’s fight was
- Page 38 and 39: FIGHTING TO VOTEPhoto: Rokeby Venus
- Page 40 and 41: "I know you will sentence me, but i
- Page 42 and 43: sticks and umbrellas - were bannedf
- Page 44 and 45: BILLIE HOLIDAY& THE IMPACT OFSTRANG
- Page 46 and 47: BILLIE HOLIDAYIt wouldn’t take lo
- Page 48 and 49: WORDS: Ben PurdieWHEREWORDSFAIL...4
- Page 50 and 51: When the war in Vietnam began, many
- Page 52 and 53: PROTEST &SPORT52 INSIDE HISTORY
- Page 54 and 55: PROTEST & SPORTfrom the 1972 Summer
- Page 56 and 57: Demonstrators marching in the stree
PETERLOO
A print published on 27 August 1819 depicting Hunt's arrest by the constables
(Public Domain)
INSIDE HISTORY 09
Change language