Wikipedia's first sentence called it “culmination in the 19th century of efforts over several hundred years to loosen the legal restrictions set in p”. Today it says “culmination in the 19th century of efforts over many years to remove the legal restrictions set in place on eng”.
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The opening as it read in 2010
The Emancipation of the Jews in England was the culmination of efforts in the 19th Century over several hundred years to loosen the legal restrictions set in place on England's Jewish population.1The nation's mercantile class had long recognized Jews as an economic asset, and they and their allies in Parliament sought and eventually won the passage of laws that placed male Jews in England on an equal legal footing with the kingdom's other emancipated males.2
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The opening as it stood in 2005
Emancipation of the Jews in England (This page is part of the History of the Jews in England )
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The opening as it stood in 2015
The Emancipation of the Jews in the United Kingdom was the culmination in the 19th century of efforts over several hundred years to loosen the legal restrictions set in place on England's Jewish population. The nation's mercantile class had long recognised Jews as an economic asset, and they and their allies in Parliament sought and eventually won the passage of laws that placed male Jews in the United Kingdom on an equal legal footing with the kingdom's other emancipated males.
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The opening as it stood in 2020
Jewish emancipation in the United Kingdom was the culmination in the 19th century of efforts over several hundred years to loosen the legal restrictions set in place on England's Jewish population. The nation's mercantile class had long recognised Jews as an economic asset, and they and their allies in Parliament sought and eventually won the passage of laws that placed male Jews in the United Kingdom on an equal legal footing with the kingdom's other emancipated males.
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Jewish emancipation in the United Kingdom was the culmination in the 19th century of efforts over several hundred years to loosen the legal restrictions set in place on England's Jewish population. Advocates of each stage of this process, in and out of Parliament , sought and eventually won the passage of laws that placed male Jews in the United Kingdom on an equal legal footing with the kingdom's other emancipated males.
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The opening as it stood in 2025
Jewish emancipation in the United Kingdom was the culmination in the 19th century of efforts over several hundred years to loosen the legal restrictions set in place on England's Jewish population. Between 1833 and 1890 Parliament passed a series of laws that placed male Jews in the United Kingdom on an equal legal footing with the kingdom's other emancipated males.
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “culmination in the 19th century of efforts over several hundred years to loosen the legal restrictions set in p”. Today it says “culmination in the 19th century of efforts over many years to remove the legal restrictions set in place on eng”. Read the current article and compare.
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culmination in the 19th century of efforts over several hundred years to loosen the legal restrictions set in p
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culmination in the 19th century of efforts over many years to remove the legal restrictions set in place on eng
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