Delving deeper into the Peterloo massacre | Letters

Readers add their knowledge to the record of the 1819 massacre in ManchesterIt 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. However, it was dispiriting to find the key speaker at the great meeting in Manchester on 16 August 1819 traduced in this article with the kind of smears deployed by present-day tabloid writers against leaders of the left.