Peterloo’s impact on the Pankhursts

‘Emmeline Pankhurst’s paternal grandfather was one of the marchers at St Peter’s Field,’ notes June Purvis.Photograph: GettyThank you for your excellent coverage of the shameful Peterloo massacre. Although in your editorial (Our ancestors were at Peterloo. What does their story tell us today?, Journal, 16 August) you mention how the memory of this massacre was “invoked” by suffragettes, the point is not expanded and is ignored in the other contributions.The ma