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Peterloo

June 2024

  • Mike Leigh at the Mediterrane film festival in Malta.

    Mike Leigh: Peterloo protesters would be ‘horrified’ by voter abstention

    At the Mediterrane film festival in Malta, the film-maker spoke out against UK citizens ‘seeing justification in not voting’ in the general election

July 2022

  • Lydia Rose Bewley, Richard E Grant, Dakota Johnson and Yolanda Kettle in Persuasion

    A look under the bonnet: why are we still so obsessed with the Regency era?

    Whether it’s the new Persuasion adaptation or the counterfactuals of Bridgerton and, er, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, we just can’t seem to shake Jane Austen’s world of dances and drawing rooms

August 2019

  • Mike Leigh

    Brexit threatens our democracy – can the spirit of Peterloo help us through?

    Mike Leigh
  • Sue Stennett is the great great great great Granddaughter of John Edward Taylor, who founded The Manchester Guardian.

    Inside the Guardian
    'My ancestor founded the Guardian. Its work has never been so vital'

July 2019

  • Rise Like Lions, a performance piece specially commissioned by the Guardian celebrating 200 years of protest since the Peterloo Massacre, as part of the Manchester International Festival, July 2019.

    Inside the Guardian
    Guardian events commemorating Peterloo: 'the spirit of change is still palpable’

    Guardian supporter Dolores Long reflects on our recent events commemorating the 200th anniversary of the massacre

March 2019

  • Mike Leigh at his production offices in Soho.

    New breed of studio executives behave like old-style Hollywood moguls, warns Mike Leigh

    Peterloo director tells of his fears that streaming service executives are killing creativity

January 2019

  • a still from Mike Leigh’s Peterloo.

    Peterloo by Jacqueline Riding review – the need for working-class history

    This gripping, magnificent account of the 1819 St Peter’s Field massacre is a welcome reminder of the role of class conflict in political change

December 2018

  • Roma

    Top UK films 2018
    The 50 best films of 2018 in the UK: the full list

  • Paul Chadwick

    Open door
    Could cinema play a starring role in journalism’s defence?

    Paul Chadwick

November 2018

  • Donald Tusk

    Today in Focus
    Donald Tusk, Russia and the plane crash that changed Poland

  • 2018, BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY<br>RAMI MALEK Character(s): Freddie Mercury Film ‘BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY’ (2018) Directed By BRYAN SINGER 24 October 2018 SAX92976 Allstar/NEW REGENCY PICTURES (USA/UK 2018) **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of NEW REGENCY PICTURES and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To NEW REGENCY PICTURES is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Box office analysis: UK
    It's a kind of magic as Bohemian Rhapsody stays top of UK box office

  • Crowd scene in Mike Leigh's Peterloo

    Peterloo review – Mike Leigh’s impassioned, epic history lesson

  • Scene from the film Peterloo

    Peterloo, bloody riots and raising red flags

  • 'A well kept secret': Mike Leigh on the Peterloo massacre – video

  • Manchester: Jeremy Deller unveils design for Peterloo memorial

October 2018

  • The Phoenix cinema

    Mike Leigh protests against takeover of one of UK's oldest cinemas

    Peterloo director joins Ken Loach and Robert Plant to oppose Curzon interest in Phoenix
  • A scene from Mike Leigh’s Peterloo film

    Keeping the memory of Peterloo alive

    Letters: June Purvis says the massacre influenced the suffragettes, Harry Galbraith fears that the people of Britain today are much less likely to show mass dissent, Alan Braddock says Peterloo is not forgotten in Manchester, and John Richardson points out that more people were killed in the 1831 Merthyr rising

    • Peterloo shaped modern Britain, as much as any king or queen did

      John Harris

    • Tim McInnerny on Peterloo: ‘It’s rare to feel that something is so important’

    • You ask the questions
      'Silly question!' Mike Leigh interviewed by our readers and famous fans

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