It takes the average reader 8 hours and 13 minutes to read Peterloo by Robert Poole
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
On 16 August, 1819, at St Peter's Field, Manchester, armed cavalry attacked a peaceful rally of some 50,000 pro-democracy reformers. Under the eyes of the national press, 18 people were killed and some 700 injured, many of them by sabres, many of them women, some of them children. The 'Peterloo massacre', the subject of a recent feature film and a major commemoration in 2019, is famous as the central episode in Edward Thompson's Making of the English Working Class. It also marked the rise of a new English radical populism as the British state, recently victorious at Waterloo, was challenged...
Peterloo by Robert Poole is 478 pages long, and a total of 123,324 words.
This makes it 161% the length of the average book. It also has 151% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 13 minutes to read Peterloo aloud.
Peterloo is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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