Major Dyneley's account of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre | Archives Alive: Peterloo

In this reading by Klemens Koehring we hear Major Dyneley's account of the Peterloo Massacre in 1819, when cavalry were sent in to disperse a peaceful crowd gathered to hear speakers call for the reform of Parliament. This account is held in The National Archives, file HO42/196.
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