A meeting of the Anti-Corn Law League in a Drury Lane theatre, London in the 19th century. The Corn Laws were taxes on imported grain introduced in 1815, the League was responsible for turning public and elite opinion against the laws. From Cassell's Illustrated History of England, published c. 1880.

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