Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction, Michael Demson and Regina Hewitt; 1. Peterloo, Ambivalence, and Commemorative Culture, Stephen C. Behrendt; 2. The Sounds of Peterloo, Ian Haywood; 3. Henry Hunt’s White Hat: The Long Tradition of Mute Sedition, Murray Pittock; 4. Staging Protest and Repression: Guy Fawkes in Post-Peterloo Performance, Frederick Burwick; 5. Responses to Peterloo in Scotland, 1819-1822, Gerard Carruthers; 6. ‘The Most Portentous Event in Modern History’: Ireland Before and After Peterloo, James Kelly; 7. Political Suicide: Castlereagh, Rebellion, and Self-Directed Violence, Michelle Faubert; 8. William Cobbett, ‘Resurrection Man’: The Peterloo Massacre and the Bones of Tom Paine, Katey Castellano; 9. The Church and Peterloo, John Gardner; 10. ‘Reform or Convulsion’: Jeremy Bentham and the Peterloo Massacre, Victoria Myers; 11. Wordsworth After Peterloo: The Persistence of War in The River Duddon . . . and other Poems, Philip Shaw; 12. Shelley’s Poetry and Suffering, Michael Scrivener; Index.