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1 day ago · Kate Smith, review of Sugar and Spice: Grocers and Groceries in Provincial England, 1650-1830, (review no. 1453) https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/1453. Date accessed: 1 June, 2024. During the long 18th century imported foodstuffs came to play a central role in the everyday experiences of British people.
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1 day ago · In a highly impressive and striking series of well-documented and authoritative chapters he shows that Britain had modernized in the decades after 1945: it had a very productive agricultural sector, a new road network (the motorway system, most of which was constructed between 1958 and 1988), an efficient power generation and distribution system based initially on its coal resources but ...
2 days ago · Marks and Spencer plc (commonly abbreviated to M&S and colloquially known as Marks or Marks & Sparks) is a major British multinational retailer based in London, England, that specialises in selling clothing, beauty products, home products and food products. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index .
3 days ago · British Home StoresBHS first opened its doors in 2012, closing them again four years later in 2016. Photo: Mark Payne
1 day ago · Taking the national income per head (a rough yardstick), the British by 1967 had sunk to eighth place among OECD countries, with an annual income of $1,910 compared with $2,010 for Germany, $2,060 for France and $2,480 for Switzerland: and Britain's falling position already shows itself in the lower proportion of new cars and new houses (though still leading with TV sets and washing machines)."
3 days ago · If Napoleon threw Britons’ (and by this he essentially means English (pp. 7–9, 15–7)), perceptions of themselves into doubt, if Napoleon raised questions about Britain’s own destiny, then this is important, according to Semmel, because it was at the origins of a debate about political legitimacy and constitutional reform in Britain ...
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2 days ago · The history of the foreign relations of the United Kingdom covers English, British, and United Kingdom's foreign policy from about 1500 to 2000. For the current situation since 2000 see foreign relations of the United Kingdom . Britain from 1750 to the 1910s took pride in an unmatched economic base; comprising industry, finance, shipping and ...
