Protests and fake news during the Regency era: The Peterloo Massacre

Protests and fake news during the Regency era: The Peterloo Massacre

Lately, when we open a newspaper or turn on the television, we’re frequently presented with images of people taking to the streets in protest. And while this might feel like a relatively modern phenomenon, people banning together to try to fight an injustice goes back centuries, if not thousands of years.  Today, I’m going to [...]