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
In 1847 Mr. Bright was the candidate for Manchester, whom we of the old Anti-Corn Law League supported.
From Canada and the States by E. W. (Edward William) Watkin
In 1852, a Protectionist Ministry under Lord Derby came into power, and the Anti-Corn Law League was revived.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters by Arthur Mee
He was the first Treasurer of the Anti-Corn Law Association, and when that developed into the Anti-Corn Law League, he became its first Chairman.
From Three Accounts of Peterloo By Eyewitnesses Bishop Stanley, Lord Hylton, John Benjamin Smith with Bishop Stanley's Evidence at the Trial by William Jolliffe
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