Between 24-28th April 2022, Dr David Scott initiated and led the inaugural ‘Weavers Uprising Remembrance Walk’, a 45 mile walk following in the footsteps of starving handloom weavers in east Lancashire 196 years ago. During this uprising handloom weavers and other working class people attempted to send a symbolic message to government about their precarious living conditions through the destruction of more than 1,100 powerlooms in the local mills. In the second of four short articles, David Scott describes the deadly events at Chatterton on the 26th of April 1826, why this tragedy has for so long been either misinterpreted or forgotten and why it is now essential that these state killings are remembered as a massacre.