1830-1859
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A Political Man
William Taylor Haly
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Cobden and his constituencies
An analysis of Richard Cobden’s relationship with the constituencies he represented
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The letters of Richard Cobden online
A new resource for Liberal history
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The 1847 Financial Crisis and the Irish Famine : 15th March 2024
The Irish famine of the 1840s remains the worst humanitarian crisis in the United Kingdom’s history. Within six years of the arrival of the potato blight in Ireland in 1845, more than a quarter of its people had died or emigrated. Despite this, Lord John Russell’s Whig government decided in spring 1847 – long before…