The Peterloo Memorial, unveiled in 2019 on the 200th anniversary of the massacre, stands on Peter Street at the site of one of the most significant events in British political history. The memorial — a series of concentric circles rising from the ground, inscribed with the names of the dead — was designed by Jeremy Deller and is deceptively simple but quietly powerful.
The massacre had profound political consequences: it provoked outrage, brought down the Liverpool government's reputation, and galvanised the reform movement. The Chartist and suffragette movements both drew on Peterloo's memory. Today the surrounding streets, dominated by office buildings and the Midland Hotel, give little sense of the open field where 60,000 people stood — which makes the memorial all the more important as a marker of what happened here.