Retail and Community: Business, Charity and the End of Empire

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Nadia Awal (Black Country Living Museum) Jessica Field (University College London)

Retail and Community

Business, Charity and the End of Empire

Nadia Awal (Black Country Living Museum), Jessica Field (University College London), Triona Fitton (University of Kent) , Majorie Gehrhardt (University of Reading)

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Bristol University Press
28 June 2024

Charities, voluntary services & philanthropy; Retail sector

Retail has never existed in a vacuum.

This interdisciplinary volume explores how English commercial, co-operative and charity retailing were shaped by and in turn influenced their social and political environments, from the local to the global, between the late nineteenth and early twenty-first centuries.

Historians, sociologists, archivists and heritage professionals engage with current debates on the rise of modern business and the decline of the high street, class and credit, professionalisation in the voluntary sector, migration and the end of empire.

This book will be a key resource to better understand retail and community in an era defined by social change, shedding new light on the enduring centrality of community relationships to modern retailers.

Contributions by: Nadia Awal (Black Country Living Museum), Jessica Field (University College London), Triona Fitton (University of Kent), Majorie Gehrhardt (University of Reading), Jenny Gilbert (University of Sheffield)
Imprint: Bristol University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Abridged edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781529235241
ISBN 10: 1529235243
Pages: 252
Publication Date: 28 June 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

George Campbell Gosling is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Wolverhampton. Alix R. Green is Reader in History at the University of Essex. Grace Millar is Honorary Research Fellow in History at the University of Wolverhampton.

Reviews for Retail and Community: Business, Charity and the End of Empire

“The climate crisis and the COVID-19 lockdowns have changed the picture of future shopping—with an end to fast, easy sales and consumption and concern instead for local environments and ethical responsibility. Retail and Community demonstrates that this focus is not new: that we can learn now from another history of modern shopping. It is a timely book.” Rachel Bowlby, University College London