Now! Then! Tag: Corn Laws (1815-46)

Entries for the tag ‘Corn Laws (1815-46)’

Mercantilist tariffs and other restrictions on imported wheat, oats and barley, which, by keeping prices artificially high, favoured (Tory) landowners but made the poor hungry, the middle classes poor, and (Whig) manufacturers less able to develop their businesses.

18 August 1812: Lady Ludd leads bread rioters through the streets of Leeds
3 December 1816: A revolutionary bread riot is averted at Sheffield
10 November 1817: Though organised Luddism is in decline, a gig-mill burns on Hunslet Lane, Leeds
20 September 1819: Flags and fasces at a procession from Briggate to Hunslet Moor to protest the Peterloo Massacre
12 June 1832: William Hirst, “father of the Yorkshire woollen trade,” composes a press advert pleading for rescue from ruin
16 August 1842: Lancastrian plug-drawing rioters invade Skipton in an attempt to halt the mills
31 July 1846: Pudsey celebrates repeal of the Corn Laws with a ca. 1725 kg free-trade plum pudding

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