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1. The Stamp Act of 1765.

Subjects
*HISTORY of taxation, *TARIFF on paper, *PAPER, *POSTAGE stamps, *HISTORICAL source material, *COLONIAL United States, ca. 1600-1775, *STAMP duties, *GOVERNMENT policy, *HISTORY, *COLONIES, CAUSES of the American Revolutionary War, 1775-1783, BRITISH law, ADMINISTRATION of British colonies
Abstract

The article presents the text of the Stamp Act of 1765, enacted by the British Parliament to implement stamp duties and amend other trade duties in the American colonies and plantations. A stamp duty of varying amounts was placed on each piece of paper that was used for declarations, court petitions, claims, pleas, bail, libel or renunciation in ecclesiastical matters, certificate of any university degree, writs of covenant, error, or dower, and any record or copy made of Nisi Prius or Postea. The amounts ranged from a few pence and shillings to ten pounds. The stamp duty was applied to packs of playing cards, dice, pamphlets, and newspapers. The colonists would also be taxed for learning any profession or trade.

Published
2017

2. Reading Victorian Rags: Recycling, Redemption, and Dickens's Ragged Children.

Author

Wynne, Deborah

Subjects
*RAGS, *POVERTY -- History, *PAPER industry, *HISTORY of publishing, *POOR children, *WASTE recycling, *NINETEENTH century
Abstract

In Victorian Britain rags were not only associated with the inadequate clothing of the poor, they were also viewed as a valuable commodity, widely collected for recycling into paper. This essay examines rags as simultaneously despised and precious objects, tracing the connections between Victorian accounts of poverty, the industrial recycling of rags into paper, and the redemption narratives created by Charles Dickens about rescued children. A supporter of Ragged Schools and champion of rags recycling, Dickens drew on the idea of the transformation of dirty rags into clean paper in his representations of ragged children. To him, the recycling of rags indicated the civilizing forces of modernity, and reading Dickens's representations of ragged children in this context reveals how cloth recycling became a paradigm for society's duties towards destitute children. This essay explains Dickens's juxtaposition of ragged children with references to rag-dealing in his novels; by this means he suggested that street children, like their ragged clothing, were capable of being purified and transformed into social usefulness. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2015
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3. Cheese, Stolen Paper, and the London Book Trade, 1750-99.

Author

Noblett, William

Subjects
*PAPER, *CHEESE equipment, *BOOK industry, *THEFT, *PRINTERS (Persons), *BOOKSELLERS & bookselling, *PAPER prices, *EIGHTEENTH century, *HISTORY, *HISTORY of the book industry, HISTORY of London, England -- 18th century
Abstract

An essay is presented which discusses the relationship between the theft of paper, the use of paper as a food wrapper for cheese and London, England's book industry from 1750 through 1799. An overview of the theft of paper from London printers and booksellers and its sale to cheese shops is provided.

Published
2014
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4. Elsevier denies it will force SSRN users on to other services.

Subjects
*OPEN access publishing, *COLLEGE teachers, *PUBLISHING, *PAPER
Abstract

The article reports that publishing giant Elsevier has denied to force academics in Great Britain to sign up to its other services in order to use the newly acquired Social Science Research Network (SSRN) repository. Topics include Elsevier's purchase of SSRN marks attempt to maintain control over publishing, and view of open access advocates, who have been highly critical of Elsevier that the publisher could crack down on the free dissemination of papers.

Published
2016