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ALT To Henry Hunt, Esq., as chairman of the meeting assembled in St. Peter's Field, Manchester, sixteenth day of August, 1819, and to the female Reformers of Manchester and the adjacent towns who were exposed to and suffered from the wanton and fiendish attack made on them by that brutal armed force, the Manchester and Cheshire Yeomanry Cavalry, this plate is dedicated by their fellow labourer, Richard Carlile This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1928.
ALT The Peterloo tapestry, a long stretch of cloth covered with items created by the public to commemorate the Peterloo massacre, with a red woollen Liberty cap in the foreground
ALT Musicians in 19th-century costume on stage with guitars, keyboards etc, in front of the image of a heart pierced by a sabre, labelled "Reformers of 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
