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The Lawspeaker
11-04-2012, 04:35 PM
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Shopping For England


Shopping as a leisure experience as well as a necessity was a concept introduced to the UK by two Americans during the Edwardian period.

Join Mica Nava as she traces the careers of Gordon Selfridge, who created his eponymous department store as a glamorous escape for middle class women, and Frank Woolworth, whose low-cost household goods shops gave the working class their first taste of middle class materialism.