Radicals & Reform · event 3 of 10

1839

The Anti-Corn Law League. Richard Cobden and John Bright found the League in Manchester to campaign against the tariffs keeping bread expensive. The Free Trade Hall is later built on the Peterloo site to commemorate the victory — the only building in Britain named after an economic policy.

The Radicals & Reform era

  1. 1819
  2. 1821
  3. 1839
  4. 1844
  5. 1845
  6. 1846
  7. 1852
  8. 1868
  9. 1903
  10. 1918

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