Project ID: 1022
| Description | The 1670 Michaelmas hearth tax return is the most complete surviving list as it was the first to be directly collected after the experiment of using tax farmers had collapsed and was administered from the Hearth Tax office in London. It had been subject to two archival studies. During the 1930’s and the 1940’s John Styles created a card index, held in Warwick Record Office, and in 2010 Tom Arkell published the return with an introduction and critical apparatus of people. |
| Topics | History |
| Type | U3A-led research (SLP) |
| U3A | West Midlands Region |
| Organization/partner | Centre for Hearth Tax Research |
| Year started | 2021 |
| Source of reference | Hearth Tax website https://hearthtax.wordpress.com/2021/03/19/the-people-of-warwickshire/ |
| Notes | This blog is the second of three blogs written by Anne Cripps, Anne Foster and Anne M Thomas, three University of the Third Age (U3A) researchers working on the Shared Learning Project on the Restoration hearth tax and early modern history. The work was undertaken at the Warwick Record Office, following training provided by the members of the Centre for Hearth Tax Research. |