{"id":2442,"date":"2019-06-28T10:35:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T10:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2442"},"modified":"2019-06-28T10:35:11","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T10:35:11","slug":"free-event-200th-anniversary-of-peterloo-at-keats-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2442","title":{"rendered":"Free Event: 200th Anniversary of Peterloo at Keats House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Afternoon Poems Special: 200th Anniversary of Peterloo<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>16 August 2019, 2-4pm<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Keats House, Hampstead<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2443\" style=\"width: 708px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cruikshank-george-massacre-AN00062823_001.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2443\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2443 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cruikshank-george-massacre-AN00062823_001-1024x733.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"698\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cruikshank-george-massacre-AN00062823_001-1024x733.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cruikshank-george-massacre-AN00062823_001-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cruikshank-george-massacre-AN00062823_001-768x550.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cruikshank-george-massacre-AN00062823_001-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cruikshank-george-massacre-AN00062823_001.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 698px) 100vw, 698px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2443\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8216;Massacre at St. Peter&#8217;s or &#8220;Britons strike home&#8221;!!!&#8217; by George Cruikshank (British Museum)<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Join the Keats House Poetry Ambassadors for a reading of Percy Bysshe Shelley&#8217;s poem <em>The Mask of Anarchy<\/em>. This revolutionary work was written in response to the Peterloo massacre which occurred in St Peter\u2019s Fields, Manchester, on 16 August 1819.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pure.roehampton.ac.uk\/portal\/en\/persons\/ian-haywood(2f1357b9-2769-485b-8a00-27ebd2595bb1).html\/\">Professor Ian Haywood<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; of the University of Roehampton and President of BARS &#8211; will also be present to discuss Peterloo itself and then the poem\u2019s historic context.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rise like Lions after slumber<br \/>\nIn unvanquishable number &#8211;<br \/>\nShake your chains to earth like dew<br \/>\nWhich in sleep had fallen on you &#8211;<br \/>\nYe are many &#8211; they are few.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/afternoon-poems-special-200th-anniversary-of-peterloo-tickets-58789536085\"><strong>Free<\/strong> &#8211; book your space here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afternoon Poems Special: 200th Anniversary of Peterloo 16 August 2019, 2-4pm Keats House, Hampstead &nbsp; &nbsp; Join the Keats House Poetry Ambassadors for a reading of Percy Bysshe Shelley&#8217;s poem&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2442\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2442"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2446,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions\/2446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}