Retail Trade advertising in the Leicester Chronicle 1855-71

Beverley Ann Tudor

This paper reviews the retail ads that appeared in the Leicester press between 1855 and 1871. It reviews the major product areas including Food and Drink, Fashion, Household Products and national brands.

Retail Trade Advertising in the Leicester Journal and the Leicester Chronicle 1855-71

Beverley Ann Tudor,former student at Loughborough University of Technology

The industrial wealth of England, so proudly on view at the Great Exhibition of 1851, was creating a new spending population, a new middle class in which great importance was attached to signs and symbols of prosperity: expensive clothes, handsome household furnishings, carriages, servants, a large establishment and a prodigious number of children...

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