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The Hearth Tax Project

'a truly pioneering project of national relevance and importance' (Vernacular Architecture 37, 2006, 147)

‘an outstanding resource for historians of England and Wales’ (The Local Historian 32.4, 2002, 257).

Forthcoming Events

Restoration London Conference – September 2010

As part of the AHRC London Hearth Tax Project, the Centre for Hearth Tax Research is co-organising an international conference which will be held at the Institute of Historical Research on the 22nd and 23rd of September 2010. The aim of this conference is to reassess life and living in later Stuart London. For further details, please visit our events page

Recent Events

The Roehampton University London, History Postgraduate Conference 'Charity and Community' took place at Roehampton University London on the 13-15 June 2009. With presentations by postgraduate students, historians and professionals from the charity sector as well as keynote lectures by Professor Christopher Dyer and Professor Steve Hindle, it proved to be an important and stimulating event. For further details, please visit our events page

Announcements

• The Hearth Tax Project is pleased to announce the publication of Westmorland Hearth Tax, volume VI in the British Record Society Hearth Tax Series. This volume delivers unrivalled coverage for the county in this period by printing and analysing four hearth tax documents as well providing seventeen full-colour maps and numerous illustrations. The contextual essays, including Dr Phillips’ engaging introduction, illuminate not only the history, architecture and people of this fascinating area but also explain and contextualise the documents themselves. For further details of this and other publications, please click here
• The Centre for Hearth Tax Research, in collaboration with the Friends of Historic Essex, the Essex Record Office and The National Archives, has been awarded an AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Studentship to explore and develop new understandings of poverty in early modern Essex.
• Award Winning Publication. Putney and Roehampton in 1665: A Street Directory and Guide by Dorian Gerhold, recently published by Roehampton University London and the Wandsworth Historical Society, has won the 2008 London and Middlesex Archaeological Society (LAMAS) Local History Publications Award. For further details and to order a copy, please click here

To view previous announcements, please click here

Supporting the Project

If you would like to support and encourage the work that the Hearth Tax Project undertakes, why not download a copy of our flyer and display it at your place of work or ask at your local library, local record office or family record society if they have a suitable notices board.

The Images of hearths on this website are reproduced with the kind permission of Jeremy Milln, Sarah Pearson, John Walker, Peter Smith and the Museum of Lakeland Life, Kendal, Cumbria.