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...