1. See J. Benson, The Rise of Consumer Society in Britain, 1880–1980 (London: Longman, 1994)
2. D. Cohen, Household Gods: The British and Their Possessions (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006).
3. The two classic studies are: J. Jefferys, Retail Trading in Britain, 1850–1950 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954)
4. P. Mathias, Retailing Revolution: A History of Multiple Retailing in the Food Trades (London: Longman, 1967).
5. N. McKendrick, ‘The Consumer Revolution of Eighteenth-century England’, in N. McKendrick, J. Brewer and J. H. Plumb (eds), The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialization of Eighteenth-century England (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982), pp. 9–33