Explorations: Wheeling and Dealing: The development of a consumer society in Britain - 1

Duration: 30 mins 16 secs
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Description: Background to Channel 4 'The Day the World Took Off', shown in 2000. With thanks to Windfall Films.

In conversation with Ian Duncan, Maxine Berg reflects on the development of consumerism and the rise of the middle class in eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain. The colours, textures, cloths and other desirable things.
 
Created: 2018-03-08 17:32
Collection: A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off)
Publisher: University of Cambridge
Copyright: Prof Alan Macfarlane
Language: eng (English)
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