Beyond Peterloo
Hargreaves, Rob2018
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Elijah Dixon played a key role in the Blanketeer's March of 1817. Arrested, chained in double irons and imprisoned without trial, the episode set the stage for the Peterloo Massacre. Everybody in Victorian Manchester knew of Elijah Dixon. Over a period of 60 years, he was an ever-present force in the tumultuous politics of the town. He worked alongside the great figures of 19th century Radicalism, and as 'The Manchester Man' he became the town's ambassador for Chartism. An early apostle of votes for women, Temperance advocate, Christian convert, Dixon rose from poverty to make a fortune as Britain's first mass-producer of matches. In 'Beyond Peterloo,' Robert Hargreaves and Alan Hampson bring Elijah's previously overlooked yet vital contribution to social reform to life.
Main title:
Beyond Peterloo / Rob Hargreaves, Alan Hampson.
Author:
Hargreaves, Rob, authorHampson, Alan, author
Work:
Imprint:
Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword History, 2018.
Collation:
256 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781526725097 (pbk)
Dewey class:
303.484092L322942 MAN
Local class:
L 322
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2666310