Comment by JBiserkov
And windows being covered with bricks for tax reasons.
And windows being covered with bricks for tax reasons.
Taxes were also part of the reason newspapers got so large: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadsheet#History
Daylight Robbery [1]
[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43805741-daylight-robber...
The window tax features prominently in a visual novel video game (The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles), which also contains a bunch of wildly outlandish historical nonsense and characters like mad-scientist inventors, teleportation devices, and Sherlock Holmes types. I was blown away to learn the window tax was actually a real thing, not something silly just made up for the game.