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A brief history of... income taxes Featuring: audio, Jupiter Images

By Ione Mako (Guest), Professor Jane Frecknall-Hughes (The Open University)

10 September 2009

Jane Frecknall-Hughes, Professor of Accounting at The Open University Business School, explores how the challenge of defeating Bonaparte swept aside taxes on bachelors and chimneys.  Read more : A brief history of... income taxes

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What can we learn from tax records?BBC

By Bettany Hughes (Guest), Priscilla Burton (Guest), Nigel Knott (Guest), Professor Andrew Prescott (Guest), Professor Patrick K O'Brien (Guest), Dr David Grummitt (Guest), Elizabeth Parkinson (Guest)

21 February 2000

Tax returns might bring little but misery, but they hold a lot of interest for the historian.  Read more : What can we learn from tax records?

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