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Authors: Pamela Cox

30
.  ‘Women’s Charter Falls By the Wayside’,
Guardian
, 3 September 1975, p.7.

31
.  Gordon Carr,
The Angry Brigade: The Cause and the Case
, London: Victor Gollancz, 1975.

32
.  Hulanicki,
From A to Biba
, p.120; Turner,
The Biba Experience
, pp.47–9.

33
.  Carr,
The Angry Brigade
, p.104.

34
.  Martin Bright, ‘Look Back in Anger’,
Observer
, 3 February 2002,
www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2002/feb/03/features.magazine27
(accessed 21 March 2014).

35
.  BBC: On This Day, 10 September 1973,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/10/newsid_3914000/3914415.stm
(accessed 21 March 2014).

36
.  ‘British Boutique Labels of the 1960s and 1970s: Bus Stop’, Candy Says,
www.candysays.co.uk/blogs/vintage-blog/6972642-british-boutique-labels-of-the-1960s-and-1970s-bus-stop
(accessed 21 March 2014); see also Lee Bender,
Bus Stop and the Influence of the 70s on Fashion Today
, London: A&C Black Visual Arts, 2010.

37
.  ‘House of Fraser: Brief Summary of Company History’, version 2, December 2011, University of Glasgow Archive Services.

38
.  Obituary of Josephine Esther Bruce’,
Independent
, 29 August 1994.

39
.  Personal communication with Stephen Bourne, nephew of Esther Bruce and historian of black British life, April 2014; see also John Rex and Sally Tomlinson,
Colonial Immigrants in a British City: A Class Analysis
, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979.

40
.  Susan Okokon,
Black Londoners: A History
, Stroud: The History Press, 2009.

41
.  Christopher Middleton, ‘The Changing face of Britain’s Arndale Centres’,
Guardian
, 4 April 2001.

42
.  Daniel Miller, Peter Jackson, Nigel Thrift, Beverley Holbrook and Michael Rowlands,
Shopping, Place and Identity
, London: Routledge, 1998, p.33.

43
.  Ibid., p.35.

44
.  Margaret Thatcher,
The Path to Power
, London: HarperCollins, 1995, p.5.

45
.  Penny Junor,
Margaret Thatcher: Wife, Mother, Politician
, London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1984, p.44.

46
.  Margaret Thatcher Foundation, ‘Remarks visiting Brent Cross Shopping Centre’, 17 February 1978.

47
.  Thatcher,
The Path to Power
, p.4.

Epilogue

  
1
.  For extended discussion, see J.A.N. Bamfield,
Retail Futures 2018: Shop Numbers, Online and The High Street
, Nottingham: Centre for Retail Research, 2013.

  
2
.  Mary Portas, ‘The Portas Review: An independent review into the future of our high streets’, December 2011,
www.maryportas.com
(accessed February 2014); Bill Grimsey,
Sold Out
, Croydon: Filament Publishing, 2012; Rosamund Urwin, ‘How to get your PG tips’,
Evening Standard
(London), 27 February 2014.

  
3
.  British Retail Consortium,
Retail in Society: Britain’s Favourite Job
, November 2011, p.19.

  
4
.  UK Commission for Employment and Skills,
Working Futures 2012–1022
, Evidence Report 83, March 2014. See Table 4.2: Females. Occupational Categories.

  
5
.  
https://nationalcareersservice.direct.gov.uk/advice/planning/jobprofiles/Pages/salesassistant.aspx
(accessed 8 May 2014).

  
6
.  Jenny Shaw,
Shopping: Social and Cultural Perspectives
, London: Polity Press, 2010.

  
7
.  Daniel Miller,
A Theory of Shopping
, London: Polity Press, 1998.

  
8
.  Tim Walker, ‘We bought what we didn’t want’,
Independent
, 19 June 2009, p.32.

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Principal newspapers and journals

The Daily Chronicle

Daily Express

Daily Mail

The Daily News

The Drapers Record

English Woman’s Journal

Forget-Me-Not

The Pall Mall Gazette

The Shop Assistant

The Spectator

Store Management

The Times

T. P.’s and Cassell’s Weekly

Votes for Women

Women’s Industrial News

Principal store archives and store journals

Co-operative News

The Gazette
(John Lewis)

Harrodian Gazette

Harrods Store Archive, Harrods, London

House of Fraser Archive, University of Glasgow Archive Services

John Lewis Partnership Archives Collection, Heritage Centre, Cookham

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