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Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you
Ye are many - they are few.

Happy birthday, Percy Bysshe Shelley! Born on this day in 1792, Shelley wrote the Mask (or Masque) of Anarchy, a scathing satire on the hypocrisy of the English government and a call for true democracy, in 1819, after news of the Peterloo Massacre reached him in Italy.
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Happy birthday, Percy Bysshe Shelley! Born on this day in 1792, Shelley wrote the Mask (or Masque) of Anarchy, a scathing satire on the hypocrisy of the English government and a call for true democracy, in 1819, after news of the Peterloo Massacre reached him in Italy.
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Today in Labor History December 21, 1910: 344 miners died when the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit exploded in Westhoughton, England. It was the third worst mining disaster in British history. The original owner of the mine, William Hulton, once served as sheriff. In that role he sentenced 4 people to death, including a 12-yer-old boy, for taking part in a Luddite attack in 1812. His orders also led to the Peterloo Massacre in 1819, in which the cavalry charged a crowd of 60,000 workers and peasants fighting for suffrage. Many had just returned from Waterloo. Hulton paid the lowest wages of any colliery owner in Lancashire and he violently opposed any attempts to organize. His son and grandson, who later took over control of the colliery, were no better.

For a really good portrayal of the Peterloo events, see Mike’s Leigh’s 2018 film, “Peterloo.” Several recent novels portray Peterloo, including Carolyn O'Brien's “The Song of Peterloo” and Jeff Kaye's “All the People.” Isabella Banks wrote the novel “The Manchester Man” in 1876, based on her own interviews with survivors of the massacre. Additionally, there is a graphic novel in 'verbatim' form, Peterloo: Witnesses to a Massacre, as well as a 2016 Doctor Who audio adventure based on the Peterloo Massacre.

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