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  1. 30. Mai 2024 · Richard Cobden (born June 3, 1804, Dunford Farm, near Midhurst, Sussex, Eng.—died April 2, 1865, London) was a British politician best known for his successful fight for repeal (1846) of the Corn Laws and his defense of free trade. Cobden was the fourth of 11 children of a poor farmer.

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  2. Vor 2 Tagen · Learn how a new AHRC-funded project explores the correspondence of the Victorian politician Richard Cobden (1804-1865) to understand active citizenship in modern Britain. Professor Simon Morgan, Head of History at Leeds Beckett University, leads the project.

  3. 21. Mai 2024 · Richard Cobden (1804-1865) was one of the most influential British statesmen of the nineteenth century. He is most well-remembered as the leader of the Anti-Corn Law League, which campaigned against import duties on grain at a time of high food prices and a cost-of-living crisis. However, his interests and legacy were much wider ...

  4. Vor 6 Tagen · Bright met Richard Cobden in 1835 and in 1840 he became treasurer of the Rochdale branch of the Anti-Corn Law League. Bright was a gifted public speaker, and in the campaign to repeal the Corn Laws he would travel across the country speaking and campaigning for the cause.

  5. 1. Juni 2024 · Arguably, before 1867 at least, the Municipal Corporations Act of 1835 had a far more significant impact on local politics and political culture than parliamentary reform; the fight to get a municipal charter for Manchester under the Act cemented Richard Cobden’s reputation in the town and was one of his first steps towards ...

  6. Vor 3 Tagen · Through his valedictories of his kinsman Richard Cobden, Rodgers shifted Cobden’s posthumous significance from free-trader to land reformer, giving land-reform a high-political ancestry. In his 1884 Work and Wages, Rogers also helped to legitimize the American single-taxer Henry George, by providing a theoretical rationale for ...

  7. 1. Juni 2024 · The impression left is that the relationship between gender and politics in 19th-century Britain was a complex and complicated one. Richardson successfully demonstrates that certain women were able to exercise significant influence and act with relative degrees of autonomy.