- Publisher: Profile
- Year: 2024
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 412pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 240x161mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.7kg
- ISBN: 9781800812246
- Product code: 538308
The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker
A History of the High Street
Annie Gray New Hardback Illustrated
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From medieval marketplaces trading in food and everyday wares, through clusters of shops in fixed locations, to the consumerist centres recognizable today, Annie Gray explores the transformation of the high street. While placing the nature of shopping in each era into broader context she also steps into the shoes of imaginary shoppers, visiting butchers and bakers but also drapers, jewellers, chemists and tea rooms and bringing to life the nature of these specialist outlets.
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'The queen of food historians' LUCY WORSLEY
'Annie Gray's fascinating history of a British institution in crisis illuminates and entertains' GREG JENNER
'Properly immersive, full of juicy sensory detail - Annie Gray's romp down British high streets through the centuries is a blast' TESSA BOASE
Bustling with rich detail, historical vignettes and surprising wares, this is the story of Britain's best-loved but ever-changing public spaces.
What makes a high street? It's certainly not just about the shopping; these thoroughfares are often the beating heart of our towns and cities and, by extension, of the people who use them. As spaces where local life and culture unfolds, our high streets can be playgrounds of personal indulgence and community spirit, or sites of contentious debate and politicking.
Historian Annie Gray takes us down the street and through the ages, from medieval marketplaces to the purpose-built concrete precincts of the twentieth century. Peeping through the windows of tailors, tearooms and grocers, we explore everything from the toyshops of yesteryear - where curiosities were sold for adults, not children - to the birth of brands we shop at today.
Vibrant and enticing, The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker is an essential reflection on how we shopped and lived in days gone by - and what the future may bring.
'Annie Gray's fascinating history of a British institution in crisis illuminates and entertains' GREG JENNER
'Properly immersive, full of juicy sensory detail - Annie Gray's romp down British high streets through the centuries is a blast' TESSA BOASE
Bustling with rich detail, historical vignettes and surprising wares, this is the story of Britain's best-loved but ever-changing public spaces.
What makes a high street? It's certainly not just about the shopping; these thoroughfares are often the beating heart of our towns and cities and, by extension, of the people who use them. As spaces where local life and culture unfolds, our high streets can be playgrounds of personal indulgence and community spirit, or sites of contentious debate and politicking.
Historian Annie Gray takes us down the street and through the ages, from medieval marketplaces to the purpose-built concrete precincts of the twentieth century. Peeping through the windows of tailors, tearooms and grocers, we explore everything from the toyshops of yesteryear - where curiosities were sold for adults, not children - to the birth of brands we shop at today.
Vibrant and enticing, The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker is an essential reflection on how we shopped and lived in days gone by - and what the future may bring.
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