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TARTAN sundaybriefing
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TODAY is Tartan Day which, as part of Scotland Week, celebrates
the links between Scotland and the Scottish diaspora in North
America, where more than 30 million people claim Scottish descent.
The first Tartan Day took place on July 1, 1982, when Ed Koch,
the then-mayor of New York, declared a one-time celebration of the
200th anniversary of the repeal of the Act of Proscription of August
12, 1747, forbidding Scots to wear the tartan.
When it was celebrated in Canada in 1986, April 6 was the chosen
date, the anniversary of the Declaration of Arbroath, which was
created in 1320.
This was a ...
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The People's Bread: A History of the Anti-Corn Law League. .(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Albion
; ...Bread: A History of the Anti-Corn Law League. New York: Leicester...the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 was recognized...History of the English Corn Laws from 1660-1846 (1930...Norman McCord's The Anti Corn Law League 1838-1846 (1958...
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The People's Bread: A History of the Anti-Corn Law League.
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...Bread A History of the Anti-Corn Law League Paul A. Pickering and...widespread unrest, The Corn Law of 1815 dismayed British...banners proclaimed `No Corn Laws' and `Down With Monopolies...repeal, the middle-class Anti-Corn Law League whose...
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From the Corn Laws to Free Trade: Interests, Ideas, and Institutions in Historical Perspective.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Independent Review
; From the Corn Laws to Free Trade: Interests...In From the Corn Laws to Free Trade, Cheryl...determinants of Corn Law repeal in mid-nineteenth...the creation of the Anti-Corn Law League and its development...the efforts of the Anti-Corn ...
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From the Corn Laws to Free Trade: Interests, Ideas, and Institutions in Historical Perspective
Magazine article from: The Independent Review
; * From the Corn Laws to Free Trade: Interests...In From the Corn Laws to Free Trade, Cheryl...determinants of Corn Law repeal in mid-nineteenth...the creation of the Anti-Corn Law League and its development...the efforts of the Anti-Corn ...
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 "Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)")
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End of Corn Laws celebrated.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
; The Corn Laws were imposed on the country...farmers had enjoyed. The laws prevented foreign corn being...fledgling retail economy. The Anti-Corn Law League was formed in 1839 to campaign...for the repeal of the Corn Laws. The members were primarily...
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Run of the mill? No more For 400 years the price of Bex Mill, Sussex, was tied to the unstable market for corn. When the milling ended, says Rose Gibbs, its value soared
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...been fought and won. When the Corn Laws were repealed in 1846, out went...intellectual force behind the anti-Corn Law campaign was Richard Cobden...noted by farmers who, at an Anti-Corn Law League rally in Rye in 1843, waved...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Of corn and cash. (agricultural subsidies in Great Britain) (column)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; ...God-fearing, freedom-loving, law-abiding rugged individualist who...subsidies ended with the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846, "the party was pre...that 150year-old movement, the Anti Corn-Law League (which opposed all agricultural...
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Free Trade and Its Reception, 1815-1960: Freedom and Trade, vol. 1, Proceedings of a Conference to Commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the Repeal of the Corn Laws.(Review) (book reviews)
Magazine article from: Business History
; ...commemorating the repeal of the Corn Laws, takes up the central...Alon Kadish shows how the Anti-Corn Law League countered the criticism...Gladstone, Peel and the Corn Laws, John Maloney reveals...contrasting case studies: Corn Law repeal and German ...
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Richard Cobden and the Crimean War: Anthony Howe looks at the anti-war stance of the great Victorian reformer; his fall from grace and subsequent revival.
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...struggle for the repeal of the Corn Laws had seen the rapid rise to...Bright (1811-89), led the Anti-Corn Law League's assault on the Corn Laws. The Corn Laws, or as Cobden...the celebrated hero of the Anti-Corn Law League ...
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An anti-poverty hero; Richard Cobden.
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; ...Richard Cobden, and he led the Anti-Corn Law League, perhaps Britain's first big...persuaded Britain to repeal the Corn Laws. The prime minister, Sir Robert...to survive and thrive after the Corn Laws had gone. Much more important...
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