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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 landowners’...

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...

From its inception the Anti-Corn Law League vied with the Chartists for the support of working people. Bread was dear, and the League claimed that repealing...

available to all. Its most famous activity was the Anti-Corn Law League that called for repeal of the Corn Laws that kept food prices high. It expounded the...

leaders like Richard Cobden and John Bright in the middle class Anti-Corn Law League emerged to oppose the existing duties on imported grain which helped...

manufacturer, friend of Richard Cobden, and founding member of the Anti-Corn Law League. Henry Ashworth was born on 4 September 1794 into a prominent Quaker...

campaigner for free trade and peace. He was associated with the Anti-Corn Law League and the Cobden–Chevalier Treaty. As a young man, Cobden was a successful...

for battling the Corn Laws. In partnership with Richard Cobden, he founded the Anti-Corn Law League, aimed at abolishing the Corn Laws, which raised food...

them "The Chartist Insurrection", but suspicion also hung over the Anti-Corn Law League that manufacturers among its members deliberately closed mills to...

leadership of the Anti-Corn Law League, until its repeal in 1846. Lord Palmerston appointed him to the cabinet as president of the Poor-Law Board in 1859...

Richard Cobden, and Prentice subsequently made it a mouthpiece for the Anti-Corn-Law League. In 1849, the paper merged with the Manchester Examiner, recently...

Act 1829, the Reform Act of 1832 and the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846. The Anti-Corn Law League brought together a coalition of liberal and radical groups...

partial female suffrage was achieved. The Free Trade Hall, home of the Anti-Corn Law League, was built partly as a "cenotaph raised on the shades of the victims"...

demolished and Ludgate Circus was constructed. The headquarters of the Anti-Corn Law League were based at No. 67 Fleet Street, and a blue plaque marks the location...

him back his throne. Job Thornberry comes into the story with the Anti-Corn-Law League, representing the remarkable change in English politics which made...

debate. Corn Laws Anti-Corn Law League History of agriculture in Canada D. L. Burn (January 1928). "V. Canada and the Repeal of the Corn Laws". Cambridge...

from the original on 21 March 2022. Retrieved 23 March 2022. "The Anti-Corn Law League". Liberal History. Archived from the original on 26 March 2018. Retrieved...

in 1836. The Corn Laws inflated the price of bread in the UK. The Anti-Corn Law League demanded cheap bread. After repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 cereal...

(1800–1849) was an Irish writer, known as a journalist, historian and Anti-Corn Law propagandist. He was born at Youghal on 16 April 1800. Through his mother...

became prominent in 1830s and 1840s as a leading activist in the Anti-Corn Law League. He specialized in the grass-roots mobilisation of opinion through...