A wreath in remembrance of Peterloo, 16 Aug 1819, laid on 16 Aug 2010 beneath the commemorative plaque in Manchester. I saw this while on the Peterloo tour given by Ed Glinert through New Manchester Walks. Heard a lot of good details, some of which matched what I’d read and learned, some that was new — and some that even though I knew it hearing it out loud reminded me I’d managed to ignore it when setting up my story.
For example, I must have been wearing my “capitalist blinders” when I set up the town’s managing committee, because I included businessmen on it (or maybe my “American blinders”?). In fact, at that time, men of business were not the mighty lords of the world, the actual lords were. And so the committee was made up of clergymen and gentry. Oops.
Good thing I could do this tour, and come over to Manchester itself. I may still get stuff wrong, but seeing and hearing it will help me get a greater percentage right.
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