"The Sublime of the Bazaar": A Moment in the Making of a Consumer Culture in Mid-Nineteenth Century England

Gurney, Peter

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“…The latest consumer goods were on show in this cathedral of modern commerce. Much of the organisation of the Anti-Corn Law League bazaars fell to the wives and daughters of the local and national leaders of the League (Gurney, 2006). Such bazaars were an important social occasion, as well as a significant aspect of consumer culture, and could attract a very wide range of visitors and potential purchasers.…”

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Innovation in non-food retailing in the early nineteenth century: The curious case of the bazaar

Mitchell

2010

Business History

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Commercial bazaars were a short-lived retail innovation of the first half of the nineteenth century, mainly in London. Rather like fairs had done earlier, they offered a wide range of clothing, household and fancy goods and entertainment. Like fairs they were about both shopping and leisure. But, unlike fairs, they were a controlled environment, permanent and fashionable. The norm was for counters to be let out daily, but some bazaars were essentially large shops. Traders in bazaars were often female, and at least some used bazaars as secondary outlets. Shop retailers complained about the unfair competition offered by bazaars, but many bazaars struggled commercially. Nevertheless they can be seen as precursors of department stores and covered market halls.retailing, bazaars, fairs, markets, nineteenth century, London, department stores,

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Innovation in non-food retailing in the early nineteenth century: The curious case of the bazaar

Mitchell

2010

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“…For much of the eighteenth century, consumption was focused upon Italian warehouses that became associated with imported delicacies, but by the 1820s, the term ‘Italian’ had also become associated with products manufactured in Britain. Gurney focuses on the National Anti‐Corn Law League Bazaar held at Covent Garden Theatre in 1845, stressing its importance in celebrating changing consumption patterns and noting the extent to which free traders measured progress ‘in terms of the ability of the nation to satisfy the expanding needs of the majority’. Thunder, meanwhile, discusses the use of a collection of late eighteenth‐century embroidery designs as a business archive and Cookson analyses the travel journal of an early nineteenth‐century yarn factor, which highlights sharply the contrasts between the factory worsted industry of the north of England and the declining East Anglian enterprises.…”

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Early Anglo-Saxon settlement sites have been revealed by several excavations. Dickens et al. report a substantial village and associated cemetery at Bloodmoor Hill, Suffolk. Finds included evidence for textile manufacture, but not specialist commodity production; occupation appears to have ceased in the late seventh or early eighth century. The settlement at Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire, published by Murray and McDonald, yielded an enclosed farmstead and cemetery, both in use until c.800. Evidence for textile production and the presence of Ipswich ware suggests the site's participation in an active trading network. Wright, on Orton Waterville, Peterborough, reports a long-lived settlement generating relatively modest material remains. The site at Shepperton, Middlesex, described by Poulton, appears to have been regularly laid out in the later Anglo-Saxon period, replacing a flourishing earlier settlement. Parallel ditches point to the 'toft and croft' arrangement of medieval villages.Debate continues over early population movement. Casting doubt on the historicity of Irish migration to western Britain in the fourth or fifth centuries, Dark postulates the pre-existing presence there of spoken Irish. This would contrast with the evidence for Anglo-Saxon migration, particularly to 'Anglian' areas, considered more secure. Bartholemew offers grounds for identifying 'Angulus', Continental homeland of the Angli described by Bede, as modern Frisia. Possible connections with Procopius's account, usually treated with scepticism, might suggest Frisia as the starting-point for a substantial part of the Anglo-Saxon migration into Britain. Addressing the subject of river-names, generally considered a good indicator of Anglo-Saxon displacement in lowland areas, Yeates offers evidence from the Cotswolds area showing the loss of Brittonic river-names occurring over a far longer period.Though not necessarily incompatible with the orthodox view, this may suggest a greater survival of Brittonic nomenclature originally in the west.In funerary archaeology, Hamerow explores the 'special' deposition of human and animal remains within areas of occupation. The relatively high percentage of dogs and horses, together with cattle, strengthens the impression of ritualistic activity, possibly directed towards fertility, while an association with sunken-featured buildings would make sense if such structures had been used for storage. Reconstructing the ritual of human cremation, Williams places the deceased body at the centre of an elaborate visual spectacle. Rather than a mourner-centred approach to interpretation, the body itself may have had some agency in a complex interrelationship between the living and the dead. Chester-Kadwell, evaluating metal-detector finds in Norfolk, suggests that if used carefully these can supplement the existing corpus of known early cemeteries. Lee's study of textile evidence in funerary contexts shows its value not only in relation to gender but also as an indicator of social status. The model of a 'final phase' o...

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“…2 Recent work has argued that the League helped to develop a new consumer culture and through its leader, Richard Cobden, a wider culture of political celebrity. 3 The transnational influence of free trade is another aspect of modern political economy that originated with the League. 4 Indeed, some geographers have argued that the modern ideology of globalization can be traced back to the League.…”

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Free Trade and Print Culture: Political Communication in Early Nineteenth-Century England

Miller

2017

Cultural and Social History

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This article highlights the potency of traditional popular print culture as a form of political communication for one of the pioneering campaigns of the nineteenth-century: the free trade agitation of the 1840s. Contributing to recent debates about Victorian political communication, it challenges the view that the spread of literacy and print replaced a more traditional, inclusive, hybrid style of communication. The use and adaptation of broadside culture that blurred literacy, orality and visuality proved to be a more effective means of communicating free trade to popular audiences than 'modern' methods of political communication such as official newspapers or mass propaganda. Joseph Livesey, the most successful free trade popularizer, was able to bridge the gap between free trade and Chartism, by drawing on elements of radical print culture, while seeking to shift them onto a more respectable trajectory. Livesey and cheap free trade print culture anticipated the shift from popular radicalism to popular liberalism in political culture and popular politics that occurred after 1850.

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"The Sublime of the Bazaar": A Moment in the Making of a Consumer Culture in Mid-Nineteenth Century England

Cited by 12 publications

References 62 publications

Innovation in non-food retailing in the early nineteenth century: The curious case of the bazaar

Innovation in non-food retailing in the early nineteenth century: The curious case of the bazaar

Review of periodical literature published in 2006

Free Trade and Print Culture: Political Communication in Early Nineteenth-Century England

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