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... would exclaim in dignantly, his left eye twitching with anger. You have the impudence to offer me a bribe to repeal the Corn Laws Come, come, my man You have mistaken your Member! Oh, yeah? the other would answer, very abashed. Utterly mistaken him ...

Published: Wednesday 03 September 1930
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 618 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

This ENGLAND Those FOREIGNERS

... This ENGLAND Those FOREIGNERS FOOD TAX.-- A new set of Corn Laws was how one Conservative journal described the National Government's new agricultural policy with its proposed quota for British wheat, and protective duties not exceeding 100 per cent ...

Published: Saturday 05 December 1931
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 3023 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

THE FUTURE OF EMPIRE: An opportunity to show the world that Britain still has the courage shown by those who ..

... obtained an early start in the in- dustrial race of the last century, and, abandoning her agriculture by the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846, concentrated on her manufactures. On the basis of free imports and cheap raw materials she became the most powerful ...

Published: Saturday 04 October 1930
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1551 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

This ENGLAND Those FOREIGNERS

... This ENGLAND Those FOREIGNERS FOOD TAX.-- A new set of Corn Laws was how one Conservative journal described the National Government's new agricultural policy with its proposed quota for British wheat, and protective duties not exceeding 100 per cent ...

Published: Saturday 05 December 1931
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 3023 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

WITH SILENT FRIENDS: A Quaker's Journal

... small-pox epidemics which were the ever-recurrent tragedies of those days; of the agitation against, and eventual repeal of, the Corn Laws, the Chartist Riots, the coming of the railways, and all the opposition the scheme encountered at the start the earliest ...

Published: Wednesday 06 June 1934
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2131 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

THE FUTURE OF EMPIRE: An opportunity to show the world that Britain still has the courage shown by those who ..

... obtained an early start in the in- dustrial race of the last century, and, abandoning her agriculture by the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846, concentrated on her manufactures. On the basis of free imports and cheap raw materials she became the most powerful ...

Published: Saturday 04 October 1930
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1551 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

WITH SILENT FRIENDS: Brilliant Studies of the French Revolution

... trifling as the results of all revolutions appear trifling, give them time if we now look back on it. The Repeal of the Corn Laws, the Chartist Riots, even the Suffragette Move ment, show to-day more tangible results. In any case, the greatest revolutions ...

Published: Wednesday 10 June 1936
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2332 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

With Silent Friends: A Brilliant Biography

... the death and burial of Nelson and Wellington, the marriage of Queen Victoria, the Great Exhibition, the repeal of the Corn Laws, the passing ot the Ketorm Bill, the Chartists' riots, the Indian Mutiny all the things, in fact, which history books make ...

Published: Wednesday 21 November 1934
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2547 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

A LONDON NEW LETTER

... which were bought to be abandoned by the able oollect'nn of rare man were in France He was born before the Repeal of the Corn Laws when Gladstone was still a promising young man. His father was a child of the last Earl Talbot, his mother of the 1st Earl ...

Published: Saturday 10 February 1934
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2780 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

A London Newsletter

... fashionable list of birthdays of the week. Born in the middle of the com mercial panic which resulted in the Repeal of the Corn Laws, he has lived through three generations in our history more packed with major political events and economic and social changes ...

Published: Saturday 16 May 1936
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3070 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

They Can Sit in the Sun: Migrants in Cannes and Monte Carlo

... her morning appearance at the Carlton Bar at Cannes Major and Mrs. G. 0. Sandys Are in a Cannes party that includes George Corn- wallis-West. Major Sandys has a place in the Lake district or thereabouts, and one of London's few private squash courts at ...

Published: Wednesday 11 March 1936
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 195 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

AT THE ULSTER DERBY

... HON. PATSY DIXON AND HER MOTHER, LADY GLENTORAN LIEUT. LORD JOCELYN, R.N., AND LADY JOCELYN, LORD RODEN'S SON AND DAUGHTER-IN-LAW LADY COATES AND MRS. KENNETH KIRKPATRICK FEELING CHEERFUL Photos.: Poole, Dublin The Ulster Derby meeting at the Maze provided ...

Published: Wednesday 26 July 1939
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 271 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs