Window Tax

The window tax was a significant social, cultural, and architectural imposition in the 17th and 18th centuries. The concept was that you were charged a tax by the number of windows in your house. Even today (see top floor of this picture) there are buildings with bricked up windows that were either never used or bricked-in to prevent paying the tax.

A cold sunny day in London

October 27th 2008
As the sunshine streamed through my living room window this morning, the news here continues to be dominated by the world financial crisis. Sterling took a nose dive last night against the US dollar and it has many here in a spin. I have no idea what the implications of this drop in the value of the pound means for my exchange rate and frankly I am not going to worry too much about it. Yester ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more

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