Next tour: Before Peterloo, “We Are on the Brink of Liberty”
Saturday 6 August 2022.
Meet: Central Library, St Peter’s Square, 11am.
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It was the time of the Regency, gorgeously costumed dandies, exotic architecture and society balls – but not in Manchester where the workers starved in abject poverty and all political protest was stamped out.

We explain and explore the state of the city in the year that led to the most dramatic event in British political history.