books.google.co.uk - The British have long boasted of their tradition of asylum for political refugees, but never with more justification than in the nineteenth century, when the legal toleration which was accorded them in Britain was nearly absolute. Not only were fugitives of all political complexions allowed into Britain,...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Refugee_Question_in_Mid_Victorian_Po.html?id=SGPdd5fhcQwC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Refugee Question in Mid-Victorian Politics