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The Corn Laws crisis

Stephen Bates describes the battle over bread prices that divided parliament in the mid-19th century

Irish people starving during the Potato Famine

Author and journalist Stephen Bates describes the battle over bread prices that divided parliament in mid-19th-century Britain.

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