The English poll taxes of 1377, 1379, and 1381 taxed householders, wives, dependents, and servants individually. The tax records therefore provide information about people who are rarely, if ever, mentioned in other documents. This massive resource is being published in three volumes.
The English poll taxes of 1377, 1379, and 1381 taxed householders, wives, dependents, and servants individually. The tax records therefore provide inf...
The book sets out to establish the Treasury view of Scottish claims for public expenditure from the establishment of the Scottish Office in 1885 to the failed referendum on political devolution in 1979. Drawn largely from previously unresearched (and partly uncatalogued) Treasury documents held at The National Archives (UK) it provides a unique appreciation whether its ministers and officials viewed public investment north of the border as economically 'productive', designed to ensure equivalence in public investment between Scotland and England, or otherwise to placate Scottish interests....
The book sets out to establish the Treasury view of Scottish claims for public expenditure from the establishment of the Scottish Office in 1885 to th...
