Political Suppression or Revenue Raising? Taxing Newspapers During The French Revolutionary War

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Political Suppression or Revenue Raising? Taxing Newspapers During The French Revolutionary War

In 1797 the Prime Minister of Great Britain announced a substantial increase in the stamp duty on newspapers. This increase, and indeed the tax itself, has been variously represented as an attack on press freedom and an act of suppression of the working classes. This paper reconsiders these represen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Oats, L., Sadler, Pauline
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Academy of Accounting Historians 2004
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7806

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