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Cover Page

Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

Preface

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’

Select Bibliography

Notes

Index

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Praise

By the same Author

Copyright

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