The Window Tax was introduced in 1696 and repealed in 1851 and was used as a means of assessing which households were liable to pay church and poor rates. It was soon mocked as a tax upon light and ai...Read More
The idea that people in olden days didn’t make it into old age says a lot about statistics and less about actual life expectancy facts. The average, in maths, is what you get when you add up the fig...Read More