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Hello in 1819 Percy Bish Shelley wrote I met murder on the way

He had a mask like casserole very smooth. He looked yet grim seven bloodhounds followed him

All were fat and well they might be in admirable plight for one by one and two by two

He tossed them human hearts to chew which from his wide cloak he drew

As foreign secretary Robert Stewart Castlery had successfully coordinated European opposition to Napoleon

But at home he'd repressed the reform movement and popular opinion held in responsible for the Peterloo massacre of peaceful demonstrators in

1819

Shelley's perm the mask of anarchy

Reflected the widespread public outrage and condemnation of the government's role in the massacre

Why did a peaceful and orderly meeting of men, women and children in St. Peter's field Manchester turn into a bloodbass?

How were the stirrings of radicalism in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars dealt with by the British establishment?

And what role did the Peterloo massacre play in bringing about the great reform act of

1832 with me to discuss the Peterloo massacre a Jeremy Black

Professor of history at the University of Exeter

Sarah Richardson senior lecturer in history at the University of Warwick and Clive Amsley professor of history at the open university

Jeremy Black the early 19th century

It was a time of great anxiety for the British government and the spectrific and so on

We can trace it by I know you historians want to go back to Adam

But let's start with the French Revolution in 1789 and kick that off into what we're going to talk about

French Revolution breaks out in 1789 it

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