This week Angela drags John around the shops of Britain for about 200 years as we take a look at the history of how we shop. We look at why shopping moved out of town centres and ask the important questions like “Does Selfridges sell fridges?”
Reading: Back to the Shops: The High Street in History and the Future by Rachel Bowlby
We Are History is written and presented by Angela Barnes and John O’Farrell. Production by Simon Williams. Group Editor is Andrew Harrison. We Are History is a Podmasters Production
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The 1960s - The advent of the permissive society
The Painful History of Dentistry
The Brighton Bomb – 1984
The History of April Fool’s Day
The Grand Tour
The French Revolution
The Story of Live Aid
International Women’s Day
The Glorious Revolution of 1688
The Golden Age of Smuggling
The Green Belt: Contentious countryside
The Gunpowder Plot: He didn’t start the fire
From Bits to Bots: A History of AI
Nudity down the centuries
The Zimmermann Telegram
The Haitian Revolution - the slave rebellion that succeeded
The Glamour Boys
The Race for the Bomb
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