Michala Hulme appears on ITV News about her Work Tracing Descendants of the Peterloo Massacre

Michala Hulme Associate Lecturer and Research Associate in History at Manchester Metropolitan University appears on ITV News about her work tracing the descendants of the Peterloo Massacre.

This year marks 200 years since the Peterloo Massacre which took place on 16 August 1819. The Massacre became a watershed moment in Britain's struggle for universal rights. The Massacre saw 60,000 people taking to the streets of Manchester in a March, campaigning to have the right to vote.

In the interview, Michala describes how she received the photograph in an email from somebody who knew she was researching the descendents of Peterloo. However, she decided to take a different root to ancestry, and rather than trying to find people who knew they were descended from those involved in the Peterloo Massacre, she was trying to find people who had no idea.

Michala's plan was to restage the photograph, by finding the present day descendents of the veterans in the original photograph she was sent which was taken in 1884.

Watch it here: https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2019-08-14/peterloo-massacre-tracing-descendants/