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History Extra podcast

Shopping and snacking: a social history of the high street

History Extra podcast

Immediate Media

History

4.34.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Daring department store stunts. Warming cups of cocoa. Argumentative bartering with butchers. What can revisiting high streets gone by reveal about British social history? Historian Annie Gray takes listeners on a shopping trip through the centuries, telling Ellie Cawthorne more about the goods, refreshments and entertainment on offer. (Ad) Annie Gray is the author of The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker: A History of the High Street (Profile Books, 2024). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bookshop-Draper-Candlestick-Maker-History/dp/1800812248/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=&tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-histboty. Annie Gray revisits the life of Churchill's cook during the Second World War here: https://link.chtbl.com/kzJZF5Gk. The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:24.0

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0:30.0

Thoughtful driving tips from Eso, number three.

0:33.0

This is Kiran. He's doing 70 on the motorway, on his way to a cheeky spar appointment,

0:40.0

though his diaries as he's visiting a client.

0:43.0

Naughty Kiran, lowering his speed to 60

0:46.6

could save him up to 9% in fuel on the journey.

0:50.0

Enjoy that hot stone massage, Kiriron, slowing down a little.

0:57.7

Welcome to the History Extra Podcast, fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC History magazine. stunts, warming cups of cocoa, argumentative bartering with butchers.

1:16.9

What can revisiting high streets gone by reveal about British social history? Well in her new book The Bookshop, the Draper, the candlestick

1:26.5

maker, historian Annie Gray takes listeners on a shopping stroll through the centuries. I spoke to Annie to learn more about the goods,

1:35.6

refreshments and entertainment on offer. Thank you so much for joining me Annie to talk

1:41.7

about your latest book, which revisits the history of the

1:45.8

British High Street. You say in the book that the High Street has always reflected the

1:50.0

needs and desires of the people who used it.

1:53.0

So what can we learn from looking at High Streets

1:56.0

about the eras in which they existed?

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