by Charlotte D. | Dec 3, 2021 | History
City air makes you free: How cities freed medieval people ‘Stadtluft macht frei’ (‘City air makes you free’) is a popular German saying, referring to a principle of law in place in Europe during the Middle Ages. This one would enable a serf living unfree under...
by Charlotte D. | Oct 3, 2021 | History
Britain’s Free Radio Revolution In the beginning of the 1960s, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) had the monopoly of radio in the United Kingdom. In fact, apart from one commercial TV network, the airwaves were owned by the BBC. As it happens with any...
by Charlotte D. | Jul 9, 2021 | History
The Window Tax: Daylight Robbery The Window Tax was a property tax based on the number of windows in a house, first introduced in Britain in 1696 and later on, in France. It resulted in a new form of tax avoidance, as people started to brick up their windows in order...
by Charlotte D. | Jun 13, 2021 | History
Reblochon: the French Cheese born from Tax Evasion Reblochon is a soft French cheese made in the Alpine region of Savoie from raw cow’s milk. It is, without a doubt, one of the most famous French cheeses. It is commonly used for cooking in France and is a key...
by Lucas Nunes | Apr 22, 2021 | History
The Anarchist Republic of Cospaia People often think that the lack of a government and the lack of laws would create some kind of Mad Max Society, where people would savagely kill each other. Hollywood certainly helped to shape our thinking about how the abstention of...
