Corn Laws
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The Corn Laws were tariffs and other trade restrictions on imported food and corn enforced in the United Kingdom between 1815 and 1846. The word corn in British English denotes all cereal grains, incl
The 1815 Corn Law, officially "An Act to amend the Laws now in force for regulating the Importation of Corn"
A meeting of the Anti-Corn Law League in Exeter Hall in London in 1846
Robert Peel became Conservative Prime Minister in 1841, and his government succeeded in repealing the tariffs.
Sir Thomas Lawrence Robert Banks Jenkinson , 2nd Earl of Liverpool RCIN 404930 Royal Collection
John Bright
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John Bright was a British Radical and Liberal statesman, one of the greatest orators of his generation and a promoter of free trade policies.
John Bright in the 1870s
Carte de visite of John Bright by Elliott & Fry
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