History of the British national debt
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History of the British national debt
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The history of the British national debt can be traced back to the reign of William III, who engaged a syndicate of City traders and merchants to offer for sale an issue of government debt, which evolved into the Bank of England. In 1815, at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, British government debt reached a peak of £1 billion. By the beginning of the 20th century the national debt had been gradually reduced to around 30 percent of GDP. However, during World War I, the British government was force
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_British_national_debt
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2013-03-10T16:05:17Z
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2024-09-09T20:48:01Z
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