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Have a go at this test, devised by JOHN JEFFREY-COOK, and discover how much (or little) you know about the history of our favourite subject
- Which sovereign requested the repeal of the hearth duty and why?
- Why did Pitt reduce the tea duty from an average of 119% to a uniform 25%?
- Which Chancellor was a bachelor and made bachelors pay more?
- Why did Pitt propose 2 537 resolutions in his fourth budget?
- Which assessed tax was repealed within a year as it was ruining the makers?
- Why did a Chancellor of the Exchequer-Prime Minister fight a duel?
- Why was Henry Bessemer's 1879 knighthood 45 years late?
- Why did the number of dogs apparently treble to over a million in a few years?
- Who introduced three unworkable taxes in 1910 which were all refunded by his Government ten years later? ...
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