Meet the Manchester writer whose debut novel explores personal stories of The Peterloo Massacre: https://t.co/P41qNPWAz0 Interviewed here by our . 'The Song of Peterloo' is out 1 August and there are events too.

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FREE talk 18th July 12:30 - 1:30 @ The Museum of Wigan Life Ballads and songs of Peterloo, with Dr Alison Morgan. Booking essential to book your place call 01942 828128 0r email wiganmuseum.gov.uk

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Join us TODAY for a talk by Robert Poole
'Peterloo: 1819 to 2019'
1pm-3pm
A timely illustrated lecture on the Peterloo massacre of 1819, with the emphasis on new findings and connections with the local area.
Book your FREE place here:https://t.co/gbZFfgIyBV

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TOURS AND ACTIVITIES: Join experienced guide Sibby as she retraces the steps of those involved in the Peterloo massacre.

https://t.co/r0RNNPivwA

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Meet the 12 artists joining us for this week's residency ! They'll work with () + to create brand new protest music inspired by + perform live on Thurs night! https://t.co/Z8zrrFFy0F

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Join us for a talk 'Peterloo: 1819 to 2019' by Robert Poole
Tuesday 9th July
1pm-3pm
A timely illustrated lecture on the Peterloo massacre of 1819, with the emphasis on new findings and on connections with the local area.
Book your FREE place here:https://t.co/KoMTu6YADj

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'Peterloo: 1819 to 2019'
A free talk by Robert Poole
Tuesday 9th July, 1-3pm

A timely illustrated lecture on the Peterloo massacre of 1819, with the emphasis on new findings and connections with the local area.
Book your FREE place:https://t.co/3CYssidReE

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We are very pleased to welcome Robert Poole for Peterloo 1819-2019: an illustrated lecture at today. Poole is an Author, Professor of History at UCLAN and Consultant Historian for the Peterloo 2019 programme.

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Come along to a free talk by Robert Poole
'Peterloo: 1819 to 2019'
Tuesday 9th July, 1pm-3pm
A timely illustrated lecture on the Peterloo massacre of 1819, with the emphasis on new findings and connections with the local area. Book your FREE place here:https://t.co/2QHTfZ7RBl

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Free talk Ballads and songs of Peterloo, with Dr Alison Morgan. Thursday, 18 July 2019 from 12:30-13:30, at The Museum Of Wigan Life, booking essential. Please phone 01942 828128, or Wiganmuseum.gov.uk

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Peterloo 1819-2019
Mon 24th June, 1 - 2pm
An illustrated lecture on the Peterloo massacre with Robert Poole; Author, Professor of History at UCLAN and Consultant Historian for the Peterloo 2019 programme
Free to Book: wigan.library.gov.uk or 01942 827621

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Peterloo 1819-2019
Mon 24th June, 1 - 2pm
An illustrated lecture on the Peterloo massacre with Robert Poole; Author, Professor of History at UCLAN and Consultant Historian for the Peterloo 2019 programme
Free to Book: wigan.library.gov.uk or 01942 827621

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Peterloo 1819-2019
Mon 24th June, 1 - 2pm
An illustrated lecture on the Peterloo massacre with Robert Poole; Author, Professor of History at UCLAN and Consultant Historian for the Peterloo 2019 programme
Free to Book: wigan.library.gov.uk or 01942 827621

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EXHIBITION LAUNCH: Thur 23 may, 6-8pm. Join us for the launch of 'Misshaping Peterloo', a collection created by illustrator & ceramicist Alex Sickling, inspired by Everyone welcome! FREE

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Peterloo 1819-2019
Mon 24th June, 1 - 2pm
An illustrated lecture on the Peterloo massacre with Robert Poole; Author, Professor of History at UCLAN and Consultant Historian for the Peterloo 2019 programme
Free to Book: wigan.library.gov.uk or 01942 827621

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Looking forward to meeting everyone tonight at the first Peterloo descendents event 😃

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Image No. 6 from Republican actor William Macready rabble-rouses as pro-plebeian Caius Gracchus in post-Peterloo food-riots tragedy based on Plutarch by anti-poverty agitator James Knowles. The script was brutally censored by the Lord Chamberlain

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Happy new year to you all, here is to another tear of great film & live theatre!

If your New Years resolution is to see more film & support your local independent then don’t fret, we reopen tomorrow with a second chance to see Peterloo (2.30pm) & A Star Is Born (7.30pm)

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Personal Bests 2018
Film-Mike Leigh, Peterloo.
Book-David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
Song-Ariana Grande, God is a Woman
Speech-Emma Gonzalez, March for Our Lives
Compliment-‘a beguiling cross between Mary Beard and Mary Poppins’ (Lisa Allardyce, Observer)

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Researching radical play by Irishman James Knowles on Roman food rioting, CAIUS GRACCHUS, censored 1815-1823. Caius tried to redistribute land to Italian poor. Mike Leigh's PETERLOO shows the Georgian class struggle Knowles really meant https://t.co/8cj9rAY8aM

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