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
At one of its earliest meetings appeared Richard Cobden, under whose guidance the association became the Anti-Corn Law League, and at whose invitation John Bright joined the League.
From A Short History of English Agriculture by Curtler, W. H. R. (William Henry Ricketts)
Anti-Corn Law League was organised to help give cheap food to the masses.
From Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget by Loisette, A. (Alphonse)
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.
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