Manchester and Salford Yeomanry cavalry charged a crowd of approximately 60,000 people at St Peter's Field gathered to hear Henry Hunt speak on parliamentary reform. Fifteen people were killed and hundreds wounded in the most notorious act of domestic military violence in nineteenth-century England.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
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