Resources: Trade and Trade Policy
Files are Microsoft Word documents unless noted otherwise.
- Some general maxims of Trade, from The British Merchant, 1721
- R. Campbell on the importance of commerce, 1747
- A pamphlet on the importance of the African trade, 1745
- William Pitt's speech in the House of Commons on the benefits of Britain's Commercial Treaty with France, 12 Feb. 1787
- Debates in the House of Commons on the slave trade, 12 and 21 May 1789
- An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1806
- The Petition of the Merchants of London, Respecting Commercial Restrictions, 1820
- William Huskisson on the relaxation of the navigation laws, 13 May 1826
- Restrictions on the Emigration of Artisans and the Export of Machinery, 1824
- Debate in the House of Commons on the exportation of machinery, 6 Dec. 1826
- Richard Cobden on the Repeal of the Corn Laws, 1844
- Sir Robert Peel's speech on the Second Reading of the Bill for the Repeal of the Corn Laws, 16 February 1846
- Disraeli's speech on the Third Reading of the Bill for the Repeal of the Corn Laws, 15 May 1846
- The House of Commons Asserts Free Trade, 1852