Sources
National Archives
The National Archives at Kew, London, contains material generated by central government over the centuries. Much of this material comes from local sources, including the most important collections of Peterloo material. The Home Office kept up correspondence with dozens of local magistrates, military commanders, spies and imprisoned reformers, while the Treasury Solicitor’s Office oversaw the trials. Selections are included here.
Home Office Papers
The huge files of Home Office correspondence are mostly uncatalogued, but the Home Office Disturbances Papers project, supported by the British Academy, has made a start on material from 1816-17. Here are selections of the correspondence between the Home Office and the local authorities which include accounts of Peterloo and its aftermath.
The John Rylands Library
The John Rylands Library (Special Collections, Deansgate) has an important collection of Peterloo material, known as English MS 1197, collected by the magistrate William Robert Hay and subsequently purchased by the mid-twentieth editor of the Manchester Guardian, A. P. Wadsworth. The most famous item is the Peterloo Relief Committee’s list of casualties, now a Unesco ‘Memory of the World’ document. Selections are included here.
The National Archives at Kew, London, contains material generated by central government over the centuries. Much of this material comes from local sources, including the most important collections of Peterloo material. The Home Office kept up correspondence with dozens of local magistrates, military commanders, spies and imprisoned reformers, while the Treasury Solicitor’s Office oversaw the trials. Selections are included here.
Home Office Papers
The huge files of Home Office correspondence are mostly uncatalogued, but the Home Office Disturbances Papers project, supported by the British Academy, has made a start on material from 1816-17. Here are selections of the correspondence between the Home Office and the local authorities which include accounts of Peterloo and its aftermath.
The John Rylands Library
The John Rylands Library (Special Collections, Deansgate) has an important collection of Peterloo material, known as English MS 1197, collected by the magistrate William Robert Hay and subsequently purchased by the mid-twentieth editor of the Manchester Guardian, A. P. Wadsworth. The most famous item is the Peterloo Relief Committee’s list of casualties, now a Unesco ‘Memory of the World’ document. Selections are included here.
