Lest we forget: Tiananmen Square, Manchester

...In remembrance of all who have fallen defending democracy and freedom including hundreds hacked down in Manchester England nearly 200 years ago on 16th August 1819.

...'Mike Leigh’s epic new film Peterloo is bound to foster awareness about an event which no one in England now pays much attention to. In August 1819, mounted “yeomen” militia charged into a huge crowd that had gathered in St Peter’s Fields, Manchester, to listen to a speech from campaigning political reformer, Henry Hunt...

...Leigh’s achievement is to have made a period film with the same immediacy and sense of anger that runs through contemporary dramas like Hillsborough or Bloody Sunday. He has a huge ensemble cast but that exhaustive attention to detail and fascination with the eccentricities of human behaviour which has always characterised his work is still there.'
Geoffrey Macnab, Independent

...Maxine Peake: Peterloo touches on themes that are still relevant today