Three Accounts of Peterloo: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Three Accounts of Peterloo by Francis Archibald Bruton: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 6 original MP3 tracks, 2:08:26 running time and a link to listen.
Three Accounts of Peterloo, credited to Francis Archibald Bruton, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of Three Accounts of Peterloo, by Francis Archibald Bruton. Read by Phil Benson. A companion volume to F.A. Bruton's 'The Story of Peterloo', the full title of this short collection is 'Three Accounts of Peterloo by Eyewitnesses, Bishop Stanley, Lord Hylton, John Benjamin Smith with Bishop Stanley's Evidence at the Trial'. The three contemporary accounts, each with a short introduction by the editor, give different perspectives on the events of 16 August 1819, when a troop of Hussars accompanied by the local Yeomanry rode into a peaceful reform rally at St. Peter's Fields, Manchester, leaving 18 dead and more than 700 injured. (Summary by Phil Benson)
Recording facts
- Recording title: Three Accounts of Peterloo
- Author credits: Francis Archibald Bruton
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 6
- Listed recording duration: 2:08:26
Catalogue topics
- history
- English history
- Labour movement
- Lancashire
- Manchester
- Massacre
- Hussars
Track guide
- 0 - Front matter, Introduction — 6:07
- 1 - Bishop Stanley — 29:59
- 2 - Bishop Stanley's evidence at the trial — 22:32
- 3 - Sir William Joliffe — 18:13
- 4 - John Benjamin Smith — 21:50
- 5 - Appendices — 29:50
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