Stamp Duty, Propaganda and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Stamp duty on newspapers was introduced somewhat controversially in 1712, in the reign of Queen Anne, as part of a raft of revenue raising measures aimed at meeting the exigencies of the war of the Spanish Succession. The circumstances of its introduction are the subject of an earlier paper. Despite...
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Hart Publishing
2004
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/28011 |