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Mr. G. D. H. COLE : ' Modern Britain in the Making—VI, Manchester Triumphant'

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IN the final talk of his series Mr. Cole describes the rise of the Manchester School in the England of the time of Cobden and Bright. He describes the movement culminating in the Parliamentary Reform Bill of 1832, and the respective rôles of Tories, Whigs, Radicals, and the Chartists. Lastly ho describes the Manchester triumph in the Repeal of the Corn Laws and the general conditions prevalent in England about 1850.

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