Extra History

Irish Potato Famine - The Corn Laws (60x2)

Uitzenddatum: Feb 23, 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 He repealed the corn laws in Britain to keep food prices low in Britain, with the secondary goal of famine relief for Ireland, but that bureaucratic multi-tasking would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...