Anti–Corn Law League
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The Anti–Corn Law League was a successful political movement in Great Britain aimed at the abolition of the unpopular Corn Laws, which protected national farming interests by levying taxes on imported
A meeting of the Anti–Corn Law League in Exeter Hall in 1846
A child's plate inscribed with the slogan of the Anti-Corn Law League "Our Bread Untaxed, Our Commerce Free", c. 1838–1846. British Museum
Richard Cobden
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Richard Cobden was a British Radical and Liberal politician, manufacturer, and a campaigner for free trade and peace. He was associated with the Anti–Corn Law League and the Cobden–Chevalier Treaty.
Anti–Corn Law League
…turning public and elite opinion against the laws. It was a large, nationwide middle-class moral crusade with a utopian vision. Its leading advocate Richard Cobden, according to historian Asa Briggs, promised that repeal would settle four great problems simultaneously: First, it would guarantee the prosperity of…
Cobden c. early 1860s
Richard Cobden wearing an Ambassodors badge reading "La Loi", "The Law". Painted by Ary Scheffer
Cobden's Manchester home on Quay Street.
Statue of Richard Cobden outside St Ann's Church, Manchester