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SUMMARY:Peterloo Massacre: Official Tour on the Day
DESCRIPTION:Peterloo tours on the day: \nSaturday 16 August (Peterloo Day) 2025\, 11am.\nMeet: outside Central Library\, St Peter’s Square.\nBooking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. \nThese unique Peterloo tours have been devised by Ed Glinert\, Penguin author and compiler of the forthcoming epic work\, Manchester: The Biography\, who has conducted enormous amounts of recent research into the entire Peterloo story (with many thanks to Mike Herbert’s and Robert Poole’s invaluable expertise). \nManchester tour guide Ed Glinert has worked with both the campaigning journalist extraordinaire Paul Foot (author of Red Shelley) and Mike Leigh\, director of the Peterloo film. \n* Read on: \n  \n \nThe Peterloo Massacre of 16 August 1819 is the most dramatic incident in English political history. Sabre-wielding troops charged 60\,000 Mancunians at a rally called to lower the price of bread and demand the vote. More than a dozen people died and some 650 were injured. \nThe first few decades of the 19th century\, enshrined in public imagination as the elegant age of the Regency\, were a time of severe political repression in England. The Tory government\, led by Lord Liverpool\, feared that the kind of revolutionary activity recently witnessed in France would break out in England – probably in Manchester\, where social conditions were so desperate – and chose decided to stamp out all dissent and free speech. \nThe government was at war with France\, which saw Wellington triumph over Napoleon’s forces at Waterloo in 1815. \nBut as Paul Foot once wrote\, the British government was also waging war against its own people. \nThis guided tour\, visiting the site of St Peter’s Field in Manchester city centre where the Peterloo Massacre took place\, has been devised by Ed Glinert\, political commentator with 40 years’ experience for various leading newspapers\, magazines and publishers\, who worked with legendary left-wing political journalist Paul Foot at Private Eye combating injustice. \nGlinert\, who has researched the story for decades\, brings his unique touch to this chilling story\, going into extraordinary detail\, explaining the build-up to the events\, the violence of the day\, 16 August 1819\, and the dreadful aftermath\, introducing related events\, themes and people: Shelley’s powerful poem\, The Masque of Anarchy; the birth of the Manchester Guardian; the Cato Street Conspiracy; the Six Acts; Tom Paine and his bones – even Anthony Burgess.
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LOCATION:Central Library\, St Peter's Square\, Manchester
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SUMMARY:"Fame Is the Spur". Tour Manchester's Greatest Novel
DESCRIPTION:* This annual tour takes place on Peterloo Day: 16 August.\nNOT 2025 \n* Tour led by Ed Glinert\, a Penguin Classics editor\, and Manchester’s leading historian and tour guide. \n* Meet outside Manchester Central Library\, St Peter’s Square\, 2.30pm. \n* Must be booked on Eventbrite by pressing here. \n*** \nHoward Spring’s Fame Is The Spur is the great Manchester novel. It is also the great Peterloo novel and the great Suffragette novel. An astonishing achievement. \nJohn Hamer Shawcross grows up\, illegitimate\, in poverty in Victorian Ancoats. At the start of the novel the elderly lodger in his house shows the young Hamer a sabre he wrenched from a soldier who had used it to kill his girlfriend at Peterloo. Hamer inherits the sword. \nBookish and inquisitive\, he is destined not to go to work in a mill. He goes abroad to find himself\, in classic bildungsroman fashion\, and comes back bursting with braggadocio and a heightened sense of burning injustice. He becomes a firebrand orator within the burgeoning labour movement\, brandishing the sabre to cut his way through politics. As he climbs the slippery pole so he sells out his principles\, Kinnock style\, or actually in the manner of the contemporaneous Ramsay MacDonald\, the first Labour prime minister\, back in the 1920s. Spring had to wait until MacDonald had died before the novel could be published\, otherwise the ex-PM would have sued his ass. \nFame Is The Spur is just one of a series of entertaining Manchester-based novels Howard Spring he wrote once he had left the Manchester Guardian to become a London journalist. \nEd Glinert uses his metaphorical sabre to cut a path through Howard Spring’s Manchester.
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