Quotulatiousness

February 26, 2019

Irish Potato Famine – The Corn Laws – Extra History – #2

Filed under: Britain, Food, History — Tags: , — Nicholas @ 04:00

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Published on 23 Feb 2019

Prime Minister Robert Peel was caught between the political pressures of the Whigs and the Tories. He repealed the corn laws in Britain to keep food prices low in Britain, with the secondary goal of famine relief for Ireland, but that bureaucratic multi-tasking would not help the Irish very much…

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