Anti-Corn Law League
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
So strongly intrenched was "monopoly" in the House of Commons that it was slow work for the Anti-Corn Law League with its weapons of peaceful agitation to drive it out.
From Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century by Joy, James Richard
That the attitude of the workers is as above described, of this the English Chartists have furnished us with a brilliant example in the recent Anti-Corn Law League movement.
From Selected Essays by Stenning, H. J.
The Anti-Corn Law League, as it was now called, assumed a decidedly revolutionary tone.
From The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Kelley, Florence
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