Anti-Corn Law League
Britishnoun
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The world’s first industrial city, Victorian Manchester was a hotbed of radical ideas, home to Anti-Corn Law League agitators and rioting Chartists.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 7, 2017
I'm surprised that we don't have an Anti-Tesco League today to match the Anti-Corn Law League of the 19th century.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 18, 2010
The sentence just quoted is from Dawn Island, a little one-hundred paged story which she wrote in the midst of her suffering, as her contribution to the funds of the Anti-Corn Law League.
From Harriet Martineau by Miller, Florence Fenwick
Nevertheless an active propaganda for the abolition of this law was begun by the formation of the "Anti-Corn Law League," in 1839.
From An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England by Cheyney, Edward Potts
Footnote 55: The Anti-Corn Law League was rapidly gaining importance, and fiscal policy occupied a great part of the session of 1842.
From The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 by Esher, Reginald Baliol Brett, Viscount
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