Our blog series to mark the bicentenary of the Peterloo Massacre continues today with Dr Katie Carpenter‘s third piece, which considers the inquest into the death of a young man following the infamous event at St. Peter’s Field in August 1819. Katie’s previous pieces and others in this series can be found here. There was never an official parliamentary inquiry into the Peterloo Massacre, that dark day on 16 August 1819 when … Continue reading The Inquest into the death of John Lees