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What Price Today? Shopman: A loaf is three halfpence more today, boy!

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What Price Today? Shopman: A loaf is three halfpence more today, boy!

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COLL MISC 0519_088.A fat shopkeeper stands behind a counter next to baskets piled high with bread, with shelves loaded with foreign produce behind him. A small thin boy in tattered clothes stands in front of the counter, trying to buy bread. A General Election poster for 1906, the text struck through, can be seen in the foreground. Banner top and bottom.\r\nArtist: E Huskinson\r\nPrinter: Hill, Sifken and Co\r\nPublisher: Tariff Reform League\r\nPlace of Production: London

The provocative posters are the history of British politics showing stories of high hopes and low blows.

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