History & The Arts
How do historians know about the past?
...studied, such as government documents, private letters, newspaper reports, diaries, eye-witness accounts and so on. As an example, let’s look at some primary source material from the Peterloo Massacre of 1819. In Manchester on the morning of August 16th, 1819, a peaceful mass meeting was called by pro-democracy and anti-poverty protesters to demand the vote. The speaker...