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aid to civil power
Specifically (in British usage) Military Aid to the Civil Power (MACP) means armed assistance to the police when the latter are unable to cope with riot, organized crime, or terrorism. ...
corn Laws
Regulations applied in Britain to the import and export of grain (mainly wheat) in order to control its supply and price. In 1815, following the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Parliament passed a law ...
Edward Baines
(1774–1774)Edward Baines was born on 5 February 1774 at Walton-le-Dale in Lancashire, the son of Richard Baines and his wife Jane. He died in Leeds on 3 August 1848. ...
Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth
(1757–1844)British Tory statesman, Prime Minister (1801–04). As Home Secretary (1812–21), he introduced harsh legislation to suppress the Luddites and other protest groups.
Henry Hunt
(1773–1835)British political reformer. He advocated, among other things, full adult suffrage and secret ballots. An outstanding public speaker, in August 1819 he addressed the crowd at the great ...
History
Among historians of ‘history’ the Romantic period is recognized as a kind of watershed. Such dates as 1830, 1790–1830, ‘the late eighteenth century’, or ‘the early nineteenth century’ have commonly ...
John Thelwall
(1764–1834),political lecturer, poet, journalist, and elocutionist; the foremost radical orator of the 1790s. After a basic school education, he worked in the family silk business, as a tailor, and ...
Manchester
An industrial city in northern England.Manchester Martyrs three Fenians, William O'Meara Allen, Michael Larkin, and William O'Brien, who were hanged at Manchester in 1867, for their part in the ...
2nd earl of Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson
(1770–1828)British statesman. He was first elected to Parliament in 1790. He was appointed Foreign Secretary in 1801 and helped to negotiate the Peace of Amiens with France in the following year. He ...
parliamentary reform
Is a general term covering a variety of proposals and changes which need to be carefully distinguished. Alterations to the composition, powers, procedure, and structure of Parliament have continued ...
Peterloo Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
The dispersal of an estimated 60,000 men and women on St Peter's Field in Manchester on 16 August 1819 as
Peterloo massacre (1819) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Military History
An unhappy example of military aid to the civil power, the Peterloo massacre was so called in ironic reference
Peterloo Massacre (1819) Quick reference
World Encyclopedia
Violent suppression of a political protest in Manchester,
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John Rule
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World
With the ending of the Napoleonic Wars with France in 1815, popular reform agitation for an adult male franchise in Britain reached levels of participation and developed forms of public ...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)
an attack by Manchester yeomanry on 16 August 1819 against a large but peaceable crowd. Sent to arrest the speaker at a rally of supporters of political reform in St Peter's Field, ...
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The Oxford Companion to the Brontes
1819, one of the political events that caught the imagination of the young Brontës. Together with the *Luddite Riots...
police
The first police force was established at Bow Street, London, in the early 18th century. In 1829 Sir Robert Peel, the Home Secretary, appointed police commissioners to take over responsibility ...
Regency
The period in Britain from 1811 to 1820 when the Prince of Wales, later George IV, acted as regent for his father, George III, who had become insane. Among the major events of the Regency were the ...
Samuel Bamford
(1788–1872).Lancashire radical and poet. Brought up a Wesleyan in Middleton near Manchester, he worked as a warehouse boy, farm labourer, on coal ships plying between Tyneside and London, and as a ...
Six Acts
(1819)Legislation in Britain aimed at checking what was regarded as dangerous radicalism, in an immediate response to public anger over the Peterloo Massacre. It dealt with procedures for bringing ...
