Shops and Shopping: The Small Shop Through the Ages (2)

Brighton & Hove Meeting Centre

We take shopping for granted nowadays, using our local shops (if we still have them) and going to the supermarket.  We can even order on-line and have a home delivery at our convenience.  How different was it for our ancestors – would we recognise a medieval shopfront in our own High Street and how many have survived?  And what about shop signs and shop names – how have they changed?  Do you have shopkeeping ancestors?  Who really said that the English are a ’nation of shopkeepers’?  Dr Jane Pennington will present an interesting history.

photo: St James’s Street, Brighton (from collection of David James Green)