Ancient and Rightful Customs. A history of the English Customs Service
Details:
- Author(s) Carson, Edward A
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1972
- Pages 336pp
- Publisher Faber & Faber
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Taxation agencies
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
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Notes:
An account of HM Customs & Revenue to 1970 written by HMCR's Librarian. Has sections: 'Early customs tolls'; 'The Tudor period'; 'The Stuart period'; 'The eighteenth century'; 'Smuggling in the eighteenth century'; 'Scotland in the eighteenth century; 'The nineteenth century'; 'Smuggling in the nineteenth century'; 'Beginning of the twentieth century'; 'Aftermath of the First World War'; 'The Second World War and the postwar period'