Original publication date
2006
Publication
Harper Perennial (2009), 400 pages
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CONTENTS
1 From Arcadia to Arcade: The Great Exhibition
2 'A Nation of Shopkeepers': The Eighteenth-Century Shop
3 The Ladies' (and Gents') Paradise: The Nineteenth-Century Shop
4 Read All About It: Buying the News
5 Penny a Line: Books and the Reading Public
6 To Travel Hopefully: Holidays and Tourism
7 The Greatest Shows on Earth?
8 Penny Plain, Tuppence Coloured: The Theatrical Spectacular
9 Going for a Song: The Music Market
10 Going, Going: Art and the Market
11 Sporting Life
12 Visions of Sugar Plums: A Christmas Coda
Appendices
APPENDIX 1 Currency
APPENDIX 2 Department stores (and other large shops) and their opening dates
APPENDIX 3 Holidays 'kept at the Exchequer, Stamp-Office, Excise-Office, Custom-House, Bank, East-India, and South-Sea House'
1 From Arcadia to Arcade: The Great Exhibition
2 'A Nation of Shopkeepers': The Eighteenth-Century Shop
3 The Ladies' (and Gents') Paradise: The Nineteenth-Century Shop
4 Read All About It: Buying the News
5 Penny a Line: Books and the Reading Public
6 To Travel Hopefully: Holidays and Tourism
7 The Greatest Shows on Earth?
8 Penny Plain, Tuppence Coloured: The Theatrical Spectacular
9 Going for a Song: The Music Market
10 Going, Going: Art and the Market
11 Sporting Life
12 Visions of Sugar Plums: A Christmas Coda
Appendices
APPENDIX 1 Currency
APPENDIX 2 Department stores (and other large shops) and their opening dates
APPENDIX 3 Holidays 'kept at the Exchequer, Stamp-Office, Excise-Office, Custom-House, Bank, East-India, and South-Sea House'