This time the cover painting is The Doctor by Luke Fildes
(grandson of Mary Fildes
, who was one of the speakers at the meeting that ended in the Peterloo Massacre of 16 August 1819)...
Timeline
16 August 1819: Several people were killed and more wounded...
National or international item
16 August 1819
Several people were killed and more wounded by cavalry, in a crowd gathered peacefully in St Peter's Fields at Manchester to hear the radical Henry Hunt
speak in favour of electoral reform: this became known...
