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milk prices again languished below the costs of production. D airy farmers were selling up their herds and ..

... organism 1914 & 19J9 Outbreak of war 1892 The petrol-driven tractor was invented in lowa by John Froelich 1846 The repeal ofthe Corn Laws presaged an agricultural depression as cheap grain arrived from North America 1675 2nd Viscount Townshend born. He was known ...

Published: Thursday 11 October 2007
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 959 | Page: 98 | Tags: none

Günter Grass Peeling the Onion Harvill, 7th, h/b, £18.99, 9781846550621 The German Nobel Prizewinner with a ..

... job 150 years before himcreating the modern police force in the process—before becoming prime minister and repealing the Corn Laws. Review coverage a cert. Book Scan N/R Walter Isaacson Einstein: His Life and Universe Simon & Schuster, sth, h/b, £25, ...

Published: Friday 02 March 2007
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 225 | Page: 30 | Tags: none

Lifting the stone on ancient landmark

... still known as that locally, in reality it is probably a hut circle. “The rest of the site was cleared around 1815 when the Corn Laws made the growing of cereals a very profitable business, and the pasture and other available land was ploughed up. 'P;‘eviouély ...

Published: Thursday 15 November 2001
Newspaper: Scarborough Evening News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 425 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Entertaining the masses

... one actively encouraged and facilitated by the authorities , who were emerging from the political paranoia created by the Corn Laws , industrial unrest and franchise reform . They liked the idea that music halls previously rowdy mass into safe , respectable ...

Published: Thursday 17 July 2003
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 858 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

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... and embodied by the repeal of the ture, for example—and yet he romance in which an elderly sends his daughters to Somer- Corn Laws. That, in turn, was ~ has a knack of saying in a sen- barrister is obsessed by a girl ville. His sons, like him, are the ...

Published: Thursday 12 September 2002
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 950 | Page: 199 | Tags: none

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... windmills. Further development took place in the 17th century and by the 19th century bread was the staple diet and the Corn Laws were passed. Sue demonstrated how to knead bread, leaving it to rise for at least one hour. We were shown how to make fancy ...

Published: Thursday 28 March 2002
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 539 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

Recalling a distinguished Morpeth politician

... after being an MP for 47 years. Throughout his years in Parliament he had seen many changes, including the Abolition of the Corn Laws in 1846, which brought about the downfall of Sir Robert Peel. On his retirement a dinner was held for him in the Assembly ...

Published: Thursday 13 September 2001
Newspaper: Morpeth Herald
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 629 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

'they responded to the romance of old Edinburgh while celebrating the new'

... The images reproduced here have been dated to the first half of 1846- the time of the Irish Famine, Peel's repeal of the Corn Laws, and of the speculative mania in railway stocks. The reason for making these calotypes is not recorded, but some were used ...

Published: Thursday 21 August 2003
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1219 | Page: 48 | Tags: none

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... means of preserving public order, so his appreciation of the suffering caused by hunger in Ireland led him to repeal the Corn Laws, with Whig {National Trust, £2O) taken too far. Peel grew up under the careful, loving eye of his father, Sir Robert, Ist ...

Published: Thursday 05 July 2007
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1597 | Page: 141 | Tags: none

A village by any other name known asS Hebron

... worker with him as indicated by the terms of the bond. In 1846, a great event in Parliament was the Repeal of the Corn Laws, ending duties on corn. After this Peel, creator of the Conservative Party. was defeated and resigned. The Tory section broke away and ...

Published: Thursday 28 September 2000
Newspaper: Morpeth Herald
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1011 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Kent Selling The Owens Court Estate Faversham 4 miles, London 57 miles Attractive Grade 11 listed house flanked ..

... organism 1914 & 19J9 Outbreak of war 1892 The petrol-driven tractor was invented in lowa by John Froelich 1846 The repeal ofthe Corn Laws presaged an agricultural depression as cheap grain arrived from North America 1675 2nd Viscount Townshend born. He was known ...

Published: Thursday 11 October 2007
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 7427 | Page: 99 | Tags: none

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... time to break the law’, | Lord Daresbury is critical of the newly formed Real CA, and has appealed to Masters of Hounds not to become in volved in an organisation he believes is COL R I-é é ..é S_{ | E :gmm‘ Y fi:fi?'s“’i‘s% Yel S LAW V 4 T REE el B (0 ...

Published: Thursday 12 September 2002
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 8221 | Page: 199 | Tags: none