First published in 2006. This study looks at eight centuries retail trading and shopping to answer the question of how people did tehir shopping in the past in England.

Dorothy Davis

The Late Middle Ages 1. Town Markets in the Late Middle Ages 2. Fairs and their Customers Queen Elizabeth to Queen Anne 3. New Beginnings in Retail Distribution 4. Buying Food in London 5. Shopping for Pleasure in London 6. Country Shoppers and Shopkeepers 7. Some Items for a Restoration Gentleman The Eighteenth Century 8. Bright Lights and Bow-Windows 9. The London Poor 10. A Household in Buckinghamshire 11. The Man with a Pack Modern Times 12. The Climax of Traditional Retailing 13. The Second Retailing Revolution