People's History Museum
National museum of democracy and protest in a former pump house, with hundreds of historic banners.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to the People's History Museum in Manchester follows one modest object: a walking cane carried by Charles Worsley, a joiner from Withington, in the summer of the Peterloo Massacre of eighteen nineteen. It touches on the sixty thousand reformers who marched to St Peter's Field in their Sunday best, and on the accusations that followed them home. You'll also hear how conservators at the museum read a family heirloom passed down for generations.
This audio guide was created using AI.
Similar places
Free Trade Hall
Palazzo-style sandstone hall facade on the Peterloo site, birthplace of suffragette militancy.
The Pankhurst Centre
Victorian villa where the suffragette movement was born, with a restored Edwardian family parlour.
Science and Industry Museum
Museum of industry and invention set in the world's oldest surviving railway terminus.
Emmeline Pankhurst Statue
Bronze suffragette leader standing on a chair, facing the hall where militant protest began.
Stevenson Square
Cobbled Georgian square of red-brick warehouses, bars and an ever-changing street-art toilet block.
Salford Museum & Art Gallery
Victorian civic museum and gallery in a park, with a recreated nineteenth-century street inside.