The tax crisis that cost Harold dear

The Sunday Telegraph London | March 2, 2003| | Copyright

After writing about a seventh-century burial mound at Sutton Hoo last week, I thought I had better try and make this column more up to date. So this week I am going to write about the Battle of Hastings. I went for a tour of the battlefield (at Battle) last week, and while wandering around the site with some old friends, I explained my new theory.

I have been making a documentary recently for Radio Four on the subject of tax, and the premise for the programme is that the history of Britain is essentially the history of taxation. Nearly all our major historical events have tax at the heart of ...

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