VIDEO: ‘Peterloo’ dramatises key incident in history of democracy & working class politics

17/10/2018
rhiannonjdavies

A new film by legendary director, Mike Leigh, centres on the Peterloo Massacre of 1819, when 60,000 men, women and children gathered in St Peter’s field in Manchester to demand change.

Previewing at the Glasgow Film Theatre and Edinburgh Filmhouse tonight, the is on general release from the 2nd November. 

 

 

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