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1815 Bread Riot at the entrance of the House of Commons caused by the implementation of Corn Laws

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In March 1815, a Corn Law was enacted which prohibited the import of foreign corn until the domestic product reached 80 shillings a bushel, and as a result the price soared too high. With no remedy proposed, the poor and the disaffected fell to riot. The members of parliament complained that they were being tossed to and fro like shuttlecocks between battldores. There was in truth little understanding of economic theory, even though in 18-7 John Ruskin’s father noted that ‘the one science, the first and greatest of sciences to all men . . . is the science of political economy’ the farmers themselves might as well have been engaged in high calculus; they relied upon observation and experience, common sense and ‘Old Moore’s Almanack.’ ~ Page 8

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