Three Accounts of Peterloo
Author(s): Francis Archibald Bruton
Genre(s): Memoirs, Modern (19th C)
Narrators: Phil Benson
Number of Chapters: 6
Length: 2 hours and 08 minutes
Language: English
A companion volume to F.A. Bruton's 'The Story of Peterloo', the full title of this short collection is 'Three Accounts of Peterloo by Eyewitnesses, Bishop Stanley, Lord Hylton, John Benjamin Smith with Bishop Stanley's Evidence at the Trial'. The three contemporary accounts, each with a short introduction by the editor, give different perspectives on the events of 16 August 1819, when a troop of Hussars accompanied by the local Yeomanry rode into a peaceful reform rally at St. Peter's Fields, Manchester, leaving 18 dead and more than 700 injured. (Summary by Phil Benson)
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The audiobook Three Accounts of Peterloo falls under the genres of Memoirs, Modern (19th C). It is written by Francis Archibald Bruton.