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| Further to other comments (Letters, 18 August) on Mike Leigh’s call for school students to learn about Peterloo: I recall in the early 70s helping to stage an epic production about the event involving almost a whole year group at the Brighton secondary school where I taught. It was based on a script by John Hipkin and published by Heinemann as part of their excellent series of plays for schools. So, resources already exist.With the film about to appear maybe now is the time for that publisher to consider a reprint.David LepperLabour and Co-op MP for Brighton Pavilion (1997-2010) | Further to other comments (Letters, 18 August) on Mike Leigh’s call for school students to learn about Peterloo: I recall in the early 70s helping to stage an epic production about the event involving almost a whole year group at the Brighton secondary school where I taught. It was based on a script by John Hipkin and published by Heinemann as part of their excellent series of plays for schools. So, resources already exist.With the film about to appear maybe now is the time for that publisher to consider a reprint.David LepperLabour and Co-op MP for Brighton Pavilion (1997-2010) |
| • I went to St Paul’s Girls’ School in the early 70s. We learned about the Peterloo massacre as part of our British history syllabus. Moreover we learned about the Russian Revolution, the Weimar Republic and the spread of fascism in Europe. Perhaps that is why I feel so obsessively upset about the mire we are currently in?Susan French (née Isaac)Burton on Trent, Staffordshire | • I went to St Paul’s Girls’ School in the early 70s. We learned about the Peterloo massacre as part of our British history syllabus. Moreover we learned about the Russian Revolution, the Weimar Republic and the spread of fascism in Europe. Perhaps that is why I feel so obsessively upset about the mire we are currently in?Susan French (née Isaac)Burton on Trent, Staffordshire |
| • Like reader Linda Hardman’s school in the 1960s, my school’s history curriculum for O- and A-levels included the Peterloo massacre in some detail and monarchs barely featured. It was a very southern state grammar in Oxford and the examination board was Oxford Local. I suspect the regional origin of whoever in the education department changed the curriculum was irrelevant and the move was more to do with the political party in power at the time.Steve GriffithsWatchet, Somerset | • Like reader Linda Hardman’s school in the 1960s, my school’s history curriculum for O- and A-levels included the Peterloo massacre in some detail and monarchs barely featured. It was a very southern state grammar in Oxford and the examination board was Oxford Local. I suspect the regional origin of whoever in the education department changed the curriculum was irrelevant and the move was more to do with the political party in power at the time.Steve GriffithsWatchet, Somerset |
| • Visitors to Manchester town hall might have learned about the Peterloo massacre from a painting by Ford Madox Brown; but the subject was rejected by a council committee. It was thought to be too controversial and was replaced by a depiction of the opening of the Bridgewater canal.Michael ThompsonCheadle, Greater Manchester | • Visitors to Manchester town hall might have learned about the Peterloo massacre from a painting by Ford Madox Brown; but the subject was rejected by a council committee. It was thought to be too controversial and was replaced by a depiction of the opening of the Bridgewater canal.Michael ThompsonCheadle, Greater Manchester |
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