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Robert Poole is Guild Fellow in History at UCLan. He has written several articles on Peterloo and Samuel Bamford, and his most recent book is The Wonderful Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster (Carnegie, 2011).

• Editorial v Robert Poole Articles What don't we know about Peterloo? 1 Robert Poole Manchester loyalism in the 1790s 19 Frank O'Gorman Lancashire Britishness: Patriotism in the Manchester region during the Napoleonic Wars 33 Katrina Navickas 'These Lancashire women are witches in politics': Female reform societies and the theatre of radicalism, 1819 - 1820 49 Ruth Mather Starving mothers and murdered children in cultural representations of Peterloo 65 Alison Morgan William Hone and Peterloo 79 John Gardner Radical banners from Peterloo to Chartism 93 Matthew Roberts Remembering the Manchester Massacre 111 Terry Wyke Shorter pieces Three new accounts of Peterloo 133 MRHR 23 Poole.indd 3 05/03/2014 07:45:14 iv manchester region history review The objects of Peterloo 151 Chris Burgess The Middleton Peterloo banner 159 Robert Poole The poetry of Peterloo 173 John Gardner, Alison Morgan and Robert Poole Dickens on Peterloo 181 Charles Dickens Remembering Peterloo in the twenty-first century 195 Paul Fitzgerald Long reviews John Gardner, Poetry and popular protest: Peterloo, Cato Street and the Queen Caroline Controversy (Basingstoke, 2011) 227 Brian Maidment Alan Shelston, Brief lives: Elizabeth Gaskell (London, 2010) 228 Emma Liggins Matthew Yeo, The acquisition of books by Chetham's Library, 1655 - 1700 (Leiden and Boston, 2011) 229 Timothy Underhill David Walsh, Making angels in marble: the Conservatives, the early industrial working class and attempts at political incorporation (London, 2012) 231 Katrina Navickas Neil Pye, The Home Office and the Chartists, 1838 - 48: Protest and repression in the West Riding of Yorkshire (Pontypool, 2013) 232 Katrina Navickas Short reviews 235 Article abstracts and keywords 243 Contributors' notes 247