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

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May 1, 2020 at 1:02 pm

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

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