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Toll House Inn Restaurant, Whitman, Massachusetts, USA. The Toll House was built in 1709, and used for collecting tolls during the days when the whaling industry was at its height. Date: 1934

Danegeld
Following the Viking victory at the Battle of Maldon, in Essex, King Aethelred (the Unready) is advised to pay off the Vikings rather than continue the fight

War Pay Poster
Information poster encouraging soldiers to save some of their pay during WWI in the form of savings certificates, earning a high rate of interest and free of income tax

Louis Racine - French poet of the Age of the Enlightenment
Louis Racine (1692-1763) - French poet of the Age of the Enlightenment. Later an inspector-general of taxes at Marseille in Provence. A member of the Academie des Inscriptions. Date: circa 1749

Joseph Chamberlain MP at Bingley Hall, Birmingham, 4th Novem
Illustration showing Joseph Chamberlain MP, delivering a speech on Protectionism and Free Trade, at Bingley Hall, Birmingham

An Enquiry Concerning the Clock tax

Raymond Radio 1947
English RAYMOND F.17 radio receiver, 5 valves price 15 guineas (plus tax)

Tax office in Toamasina, Madagascar
Tax office in Toamasina (Tamatave), Madagascar. Date: circa 1910

Suffragette Lena Ashwell
Portrait of Lena Ashwell (1872-1957), member of the Actress Franchise League and supporter of the Tax Resistance League. Date: circa 1914

Gentleman, lady & baby pose on unknown motorcycle
Gentleman, lady & baby pose for photograph on unknown vintage motorcycle & sidecar

Cartoon, The Treasury -- a commentary on British politicians attempting to balance the books through cutbacks and taxes. late 18th century

Getting a Document Stamped At Somerset House by H M Bateman. This illustration shows the red tape of Somerset House, tax offices

A Weak Link by Bateman. This illustration is of a man that abstains from all lifes pleasures but reaps his reward financially

Bertrand Russell, philosopher and author
Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (1872-1970), British philosopher and author. Outline of his policies in an election leaflet as suffragist candidate in the Wimbledon By-Election, 1907. Date: 1907

Cartoon, Grandpas advice, WW1
Cartoon, Grandpas advice. An old soldier thinks there should be a tax on umbrellas. Date: 1917

Cartoon, New taxes on dogs, WW1
Cartoon, New taxes on dogs (to help pay for the ongoing war). Women discuss a man who has replaced his dog with a goldfish in order to avoid paying the tax, and is taking it for a walk. Date: 1917

Newspaper Tax Opposed
A meeting for the repeal of the taxes on knowledge, held at St Martins Hall, Long Acre, London : the chief target is the tax on newspapers. Date: 1851

Boyars Beards Trimmed
In his efforts to introduce Western customs into Russia, Peter the Great imposes a tax on beards. This satire shows him trimming the beard of a Boyar. Date: 1698

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- Z, showing Zaccheus (Zacchaeus) climbing a tree in order to see Jesus. Date: circa 1860

Cartoon, Explanation, WW1
Cartoon, Explanation. Three old age pensioners outside a restaurant discuss earnings and taxation. The plump man says he pays no taxes because he spends all his money on food. Date: 1916

Cartoon, A Great Stream from a Petty Fountain, or, John Bull swamped in the Flood of new Taxes; Cormorants fishing in the Stream, by James Gillray

Cartoon, Pantagruels victorious return to the court of Gargantua, after extirpating the Soup Meagres of Bouille Land, by James Gillray

Licence for a mechanically propelled vehicle, otherwise known as a road tax disc, issued by Surrey County Council and valid until 31 December 1951

Speech of Louis XVI to the Assembly of Notables at Versailles on February 22, 1787. Assembly proposed by Charles Alexandre de Calonne to approve a new land tax that also affect the nobles and clergy

All That Was Taxed was His Ingenuity by Heath Robinson, WW1
An intelligent young pup disguised as a parakeet to avoid the increased licence duty - raised on pet dogs in Britain in 1917. 1917

Suffragette Badge 1911 Census Boycott
Badge representing the 1911 Resistance to the Census movement. Members of the W.S.P.U, Womens Freedom League and the Womens Tax Resistance League

Tea Party Tablet, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, where Griffins Wharf used to be, commemorating the event of 6 December 1773 when chests of tea were thrown into the sea in response to the British tax

Suffragette demonstration Trafalgar Square. Shows a procession of W.S.P.U demonstrators marching through Trafalgar Square, with banners and flags

Suffragette Womens Tax Resistance League. Design for a banner for the Womens Tax Resistance League, founded in 1909. The artist was Mary Sargant Florence (1857-1954)

Miss. Benett Suffragette. Miss. Sarah Benett (1850-1924) portrait. She joined the W.S.P.U, was arrested in March 1907 and imprisoned

Paris, France - Barriers, Octroi General. Date: 1828

Eve and her luxuries, WW1
Eve, the fictional gossip columnist of The Tatler magazine, pictured surrounded by some of her favourite luxury items - hats, dresses and lingerie

Cartoon, The Two Extremes of Public Opinion, WW1
Cartoon, The Two Extremes of Public Opinion, Optimism and Pessimism, during the First World War. On the left is a smiling, patriotic man reading the financial news

Greetings from Nevada, USA, the one sound state -- no retail sales tax, no corporation tax, no state income tax, no inheritance tax, no thumb tax. Date: 1940

Francois Richard-Lenoir
FRANCOIS RICHARD-LENOIR French manufacturer who prospered immensely until ruined by a tax on cotton during the Napoleonic Wars. Date: 1765 - 1839

Gentleman storming out of a meeting with the Taxman
Gentleman storming out of a meeting with a (rather odious and bureaucratic-looking Taxman - " And Thats That!" Date: circa 1940s

Two scruffy street boys discuss lowering of income tax
Joyful News. " Ow, I sy Billie, Fader says there ll be a penny off de income-tax nex Year." Date: 1895

The Octroi - Sketch in Paris by Phil May. The Octroi was a local consumption tax, so this gentleman is seemingly the tax collector. Date: 1898

Receipt for a donation to the Chamberlain Birthday Fund
Receipt for a donation of 3 Shillings to the Chamberlain Birthday Fund - to be passed to Joseph Chamberlain to further any cause he wished, ultimately his continuing support for Tariff Reform

Hall of Records, New York City, USA
Hall of Records, Chambers Street, New York City, USA. Contains the offices of the Register, County Clerk, Surrogate, and Tax and Law Departments

Disturbances in Morocco. The Kabyle refuses to pay the tax to the Sultans envoy. Engraving

Charles Alex De Calonne
CHARLES-ALEXANDRE DE CALONNE French statesman who proposed to tax nobles and clergy so was dismissed : fled to England where he was leading adviser to fellow emigres. Date: 1734 - 1802

The Domesday Book, Sussex
The Domesday Book, a record of the resources and taxable values of the boroughs and manors of Sussex, extract from the Great Domesday Book Date: c. 1085

The Domesday Book, Oxfordshire
The Domesday Book, a record of the resources and taxable values of the boroughs and manors of Oxfordshire, extract from the Great Domesday Book Date: c. 1085

The Domesday Book, Lincolnshire
The Domesday Book, a record of the resources and taxable values of the boroughs and manors of Lincolnshire, extract from the Great Domesday Book Date: c. 1085

The Domesday Book, Middlesex
The Domesday Book, a record of the resources and taxable values of the boroughs and manors of Middlesex, extract from the Great Domesday Book Date: c. 1085

The Domesday Book, Wiltshire
The Domesday Book, a record of the resources and taxable values of the boroughs and manors of Wiltshire and Dorset, spread extract from the Great Domesday Book Date: c. 1085

The Domesday Book, Westminster
The Domesday Book, a record of the resources and taxable values of the boroughs and manors of Westminster, extract from the Great Domesday Book Date: c. 1085

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