Further your research

Books

Roy Douglas, 'Taxation in Britain since 1660', (Palgrave Macmillan, 1999)

Martin Daunton, 'Trusting Leviathan: The Politics of Taxation in Britain 1799-1914', (Cambridge University Press, 2001)

Martin Daunton, 'Just Taxes: The Politics of Taxation in Britain 1914-79', (Cambridge University Press, 2002)

John Brewer, 'Sinews of Power: War, money and the English state', (Unwin Hyman, London, 1989)