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|title=Penny Loaves and Butter Cheap: Britain in 1846

|author=Stephen Bates

|publisher=Head of Zeus

|date=February 2014

|summary=A survey of events of 1846, dominated by the repeal of the corn laws, but also with emphasis on other artistic and social achievements of the era.

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Until I picked up this book, I would never have really thought of 1846 as a pivotal year in British history. Stephen Bates has proved convincingly in these pages that if it was not exactly a watershed one, it nevertheless marked an era of change.