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... A RECORD OF RURAL POVERTY HAT was it like to be a landworker in the days before the repeal of the Corn Laws changed By L. B. POWELL Bright, the actual profit of keeping a pia is very small. It is doubtful if there be any. A Pig is a sort of living aving ...
... their prosperity largely due to the railways, brought a brisk demand for the products of the farm. Despite the repeal of the Corn Laws, prices remained generally satisfactory to the farmer, and through various causes foreign competition was not These were ...
... photographs, drawings, and so on, regarding the Pudsey Pudding, a giant pudding baked in celebration of the repeal of the Corn Laws, in Pudsey, Yorkshire, about 1846.- DEREK HININGS, Banyan Villas, Hse 87, 9 Stanley Village Road, Stanley, Hong Kong. ON ...
... the public was surfeited at last, or perhaps it was because there were no public events comparable to the Repeal of the Corn Laws and the Cri mean War to excite political or patriotic enthusiasm, while the Queen's seclusion after the Prince Consort's ...
... century, when agriculture was depressed, than they were in the prosperous days of cereal farming before the repeal of the Corn Laws. The impression of abundant wildlife in the countryside, suggested by mid-Victorian and late-Victorian painters and novelists ...
... The sitters became close friends in 1838 .and together they brought their reforming zeal to triumph with the repeal of the Corn Laws. Both busts are signed M. Noble, that of Cobden being dated 1865 and that of Bright, 1876. The latter was completed by the ...
... rich, was neither nouveau nor a cotton or railway king: his money came from the rents of wide Suffolk estates before the Corn Laws' repeal, and his heart was in his farms and park. So much so that, when he died sine prole in 1860, he had taken the then ...
... will make a reasonable living.' But the shake out of Briti h agriculture happened 150 years ago, after the repeal of the Corn Laws, when industry was expanding dramatically. This is what the 'T hat was the era when the British infected the Community with ...
... constituents for supporting his neighbour Sir Robert Peel (whose son later married his daughter) over the Repeal of the Corn Laws: having fought three contests and thrown myself in the gap for the sake of the Conservative party, I now find them turning ...
... now on, British farming will play a more significant part in the national economy than at any time since the repeal of the Corn Laws. It is evident that the increased production must come. in the main, from unproductive grassland. Great strides have been ...
... lived and painted through the days of rick-burning and plough-breaking and the heartrending agitation against the Corn Laws. Linnell's son-in-law, the mystic Samuel Palmer, was less fully repre ented, although there was a complete set of the etchings he ripened ...
... hard-hit landowners were obliged to dispose of their holdings. The first was in the 1850 s, following the repeal of the Corn Laws, though one of the four brothers, Mayer, had begun buying up parcels of land before repeal in 1846. His first put·chase was ...