Delving deeper into the Peterloo massacre | Letters

It was most welcome to see your Long read on the Peterloo massacre (4 January), a timely call to prepare due commemoration for the 200th anniversary next year of this crucial event in British history.Seemingly oblivious of academic research on Henry Hunt, Stephen Bates portrays the “Orator” as egotistical and vain, insincere and hypocritical, snobbish towards workers and lubricious towards women.The self-proclaimed champion of the people, it was Hunt who ensured that the radicals gat