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Published: Friday 25 May 1962
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 270 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

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... represent the people at all, and after the Napeolonic Wars there was an outcry from the citizens of Manchester when the Corn Laws sent the price of bread up to Is. a loaf. But their grievance could not be heard in Parliament, because they had no M.P.s ...

Published: Saturday 14 January 1950
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 299 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ECHOES OF IHE PAST

... meeting of working men held in a isms room in Renshaw Street, =iwith the *Nee of n Operative Association for the Repeal of the Corn Laws. Reported that the venue was thronged to suffocation and that: Chartists. Radical and Tory seemed to merge tt private ...

Published: Saturday 29 September 1990
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
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ANSWERS Strange cargo

... in each case.) suffering from seasickness. measure for the repeal of Fit the completed roller Two unusual animals are the Corn Laws in 1846. inside the cigar -box and among the cargo. There is • The heaviest bell in screw at each end through the trap-door ...

Published: Saturday 13 March 1954
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 350 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Nicks gets shirty at Forest slump

... Arsenal score their players reveal topical Tshirts. When Nottingham Forest scored they revealed T-shirts saying: Repeal The Corn Laws! THE INVESTIGATOR (C 4, Tues) was a tense and provocative drama looking at the hounding of homosexu als in the Army . down ...

Published: Saturday 10 May 1997
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 357 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

Sir, What a feeble set of excuses for the present deplorable state of Lime Street station. Shortage of Capital ..

... was tempered by their concern tor the landowners they represented and they fought bitterly to prevent the repeal of the Corn Laws which prevented grain being sold in Britain at its true market price. They should not now be considered 1n c onsistent, because ...

Published: Wednesday 05 November 1980
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 419 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Rochdale Observer Saturday 1 2 August 1 989 'Rochdale s most famous mai°' exhibition jointly COLE Rochdale’s ..

... manufacturers In and around Manchester with its enormous trade in textiles the Corn Laws were hated by the millown-ers They formed an organisation to fight for repeal the Anti-Corn Law League and attempted to get working class support for their cause At first ...

Published: Saturday 12 August 1989
Newspaper: Rochdale Observer
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1918 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

Crop failure

... 1845 and 1846—a disaster which had severe repercussions in England and was the chief factor in causing the repeal of the Corn Laws, which had been successfully keeping grain out of Britain and maintaining high prices for home agriculture. For the Irish ...

Published: Monday 04 September 1950
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 387 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Rochdale Observer Saturday 24 November 1984 llllllllllllllllllllllllll The chequered 150-yea 1 1 town’s Radical ..

... Liberal statesman is best remembered for his partnership with Richard Cobden and the repeal of the corn laws These laws (1815) prevented the import of foreign corn until English wheat had reached 80 shillings a quarter Propaganda They were designed to protect ...

Published: Saturday 24 November 1984
Newspaper: Rochdale Observer
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1262 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

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... 5 metres. LIGHTING-UP: 22.02 to 4.18. Siertlnlays 1804: Richard Cobden who successfully campaigned for the repeal of the Corn Laws, born. 1940: The evacuation of Dunkirk. 1956: British Railways abolished third class travel. 1971: No Sex. Please—We're British ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1985
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 430 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

18 DAILY POST An independent newspaper Millers’ Tal Established 1855 No 42152 Burden of leadership WHEN will ..

... prosperity during the first half of the 19th century despite their unfounded protests about the hardships which repealing the corn laws would supposedly cause Acre for acre they could certainly compete with larger land masses in Europe But the US with its vast ...

Published: Wednesday 26 June 1991
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1154 | Page: 18 | Tags: none