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1. liberalhistory.org.uk › history › free-trade-and-theFree Trade and the Repeal of the Corn Laws

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   Rather than solving the Corn Law issue this was the prelude to a huge propaganda battle in the 1840s between free trade and protection, the League and the Anti-league, the cotton lords and the landed interest, the people and the aristocracy.

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     When the Whigs returned to power after the Corn Law crisis...

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     According to A. J. P. Taylor, the historic Liberal Party...

   • Joseph Chamberlain, 1836-1914

     Free trade had been the basis of Britain’s economic policy...

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2. academic.oup.com › book › 34578Free Trade and the Early Victorians: The Corn Laws Repealed ...

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   Jan 15, 1998 · The overarching free trade myth—that of the victory of the ‘millocrats’ of the Anti-Corn Law League over Britain’s proud aristocracy—sprang from a mixed parenthood.

3. www.hbs.edu › faculty › PagesFree Trade vs. Protectionism: The Great Corn-Laws Debate ...

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   Examines the extended conflict between free traders and protectionists in 19th century Britain. It culminates with Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel's decision at the end of 1845 about whether to repeal the Corn Laws, a series of acts that had protected British agriculture for almost 200 years.

4. link.springer.com › referenceworkentry › 10Corn Laws, Free Trade and Protectionism | SpringerLink

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   Jan 1, 2018 · In the 1840s, Britain repealed the export restrictions and import duties on wheat known as the Corn Laws. But the traditional story of British free trade was complicated by an unwillingness to eliminate the most binding tariffs on wine and other consumables. In...

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5. iea.org.uk › how-free-trade-made-europe-great-part-3How free trade made Europe great (Part 3) — Institute of ...

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   Feb 2, 2017 · British free trade policy helped to usher in the age of nineteenth-century free trade, and fostered what has been called the classical liberal era of “the three freedoms” which only came to an end with the First World War in 1914.

6. www.parliament.uk › overview › freetradeFree trade and protection - UK Parliament

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   In 1820 the merchants of Britain's largest trading cities - London, Manchester and Glasgow - petitioned the House of Commons for the abolition of all duties, in other words, for 'free trade'.

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   Did the Anti-Corn Law League win the free trade myth?

   • The overarching free trade myth—that of the victory of the ‘millocrats’ of the Anti-Corn Law League over Britain’s proud aristocracy—sprang from a mixed parenthood.

   Free Trade and the Early Victorians: The Corn Laws Repealed, 1846

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   Who wrote free trade & how does it affect the people?

   • H. Booth, Free trade as it affects the people. Addressed to a Reformed Parliament (Liverpool, Jan. 1833) See above, 24; K. J. Cameron, ‘The Anti-Corn Law Movement in Scotland’, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Edinburgh (1971), Ch. 4 (Sheffield Anti-Bread Tax Society). W. J. Fox to H. Martineau, 21 Jan. 1843 in Harriet Martineau.

   Free Trade and the Early Victorians: The Corn Laws Repealed, 1846

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   When did free trade start?

   • Free trade did not suit all merchants and shipowners, however, and was not fully implemented until the 1840s and 1850s. In 1846, in an atmosphere of divided opinion, Parliament took the controversial step of repealing the regulations which had guarded British corn prices since the end of the Napoleonic Wars.

   Free trade and protection - UK Parliament

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   What happened to free trade?

   • More generally, free trade, having re-emerged as part of a broad popular movement, was left as a single issue in the hands of the League, while working-class energies were largely, if not entirely, siphoned off to the Chartist movement.

   Free Trade and the Early Victorians: The Corn Laws Repealed, 1846

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   Why was free trade important?

   • Free trade now became part of the dominant narrative of political democracy, a victory for the people at the expense of the aristocracy, and part of the social contract which guaranteed the welfare of Britain’s citizen consumers.

   Free Trade and the Repeal of the Corn Laws – Journal of Liberal History

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   How did the Liberal Tories promote free trade?

   • As advocates of freer trade, the Liberal Tories sought stability and morality through the removal of artificial props in the economic world, allowing the operation of the providential order, with God-given rather than man-made pains and penalties.

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8. direct.mit.edu › books › monographFrom the Corn Laws to Free Trade - MIT Press

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   The overlapping and interacting forces that caused a Conservative government to repeal the protectionist Corn Laws against its own political principles and economic interests: extensive qualitative and quantitative analysis.