Turn back time: The High Street

“From the hard graft of the Victorian era and the excesses of the Edwardians to ‘make do and mend’ in wartime Britain, and the post-war boom, this is the fascinating story of how the shopping streets of Britain have been transformed over the last 140 years.”  The book to accompany the BBC series, explores shopkeepers and shopkeeping from the Victorians to the present day.

It tells the remarkable story of how the rise and fall of the high street transformed all our daily lives, touching on the history of technology, family relationships, work, food, fashion and community that make Britain what it is today. Each chapter vividly retells the story of the evolving high street at that period in time, with special emphasis given to changes in food, fashion, attitudes, jobs and family life. Illuminated with human interest stories from the programmes and illustrated with hundreds of archive photographs.