Here are the main sources I used when researching the setting for my story, An Untitled Lady.
Websites
Excerpts and profiles: Spartacus school site on parliamentary reform
Images and original documents: http://www.mewan.net/culturallinks/index.php?category_id=40
Infirmary Baths in Manchester: ManchesterHistory.net
Books, publications
Ashton, John (1834). Social England under the Regency. London: Chatto & Windus. (reissue, Singing Tree Press)
Aston, Joseph (1804). Plan of Manchester and Salford with the latest improvements. In: The Manchester Guide. Manchester: Manchester: (via Google books UK)
Bamford, Samuel (1893) Passages in the Life of a Radical and Early Days in two volumes edited with an introduction by Henry Dunckley London: T. Fisher Unwin.
Bamford, Samuel (1967/1839) The Autobiography of Samuel Bamford, v.2: Passages in the Life of a Radical, edited by W.H. Chaloner. London: Billing and Sons. (includes “A glossary of Lancashire words”)
Banks, Mrs. G. Linnaeus (1876). The Manchester Man (novel). London: Hurst and Blackett (reissue, British Library)
Bentley, Joyce (1995). Peterloo Shadows (novel). New York: Severn House. ISBN 0-7278-4818-6.
Bush, Michael (2005). The Casualties of Peterloo. Lancaster: Carnegie Publishing. ISBN 1-85936-125-0.
Bush, Michael. The Women at Peterloo: The Impact of Female Reform on the Manchester Meeting of 16 August 1819. History, Volume 89 Issue 294, Pages 209 – 232 Published Online: 30 Mar 2004 DOI 0.1111/j.1468-229X.2004.00298.x
Gaskell, Elisabeth (1855). North & South (novel). (2005) Norton Critical edition ISBN 978-0-393-97908-4.
Marlow, Joyce (1969). The Peterloo Massacre. Rapp & Whiting. ISBN 0-85391-122-3.
McKeiver, Philip (2009). Peterloo Massacre 1819. Advance Press Manchester.
Milner, Graham, The 1819 `Peterloo’ massacre: class struggle in the Industrial Revolution. Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
Poole, Robert. ‘By the Law or the Sword’: Peterloo Revisited, History, Volume 91 Issue 302, Pages 254 – 276 Published Online: 29 Mar 2006 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-229X.2006.00366.x US: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-229X.2006.00366.x
Poole, Robert. The March to Peterloo: Politics and Festivity in Late Georgian England, Past and Present 192: 109-153. August 2006 Past & Present 2006 192(1):109-153; doi:10.1093/pastj/gtl006
Swindells, Thomas (1908). Manchester Streets and Manchester Men. Manchester: J.E. Cornish, Ltd. (via Google Books)
Spring, Howard (1940). Fame is the Spur (novel). New York: The Literary Guild of America.
White, RJ (1963). Waterloo to Peterloo. London: Mercury Books. (pub 1957 William Heinemann)
