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- Title
Supplying the masses: retailing and town governance in Macclesfield, Stockport and Birkenhead, 1780–1860.
- Authors
MITCHELL, IAN
- Abstract
Rapidly growing industrial towns in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries often had to find new ways of ensuring that their populations were supplied with the necessities of life. This was likely to involve a significant role for public markets. These might be controlled by the town's governing body or might be in private hands. Macclesfield, Stockport and Birkenhead all grew rapidly in this period, but each had very different forms of governance. The article explores the impact of town governance on the town markets, and on the evolution of retailing more generally in each place.
- Subjects
MACCLESFIELD (England); STOCKPORT (England); BIRKENHEAD (England); ENGLAND; UNITED Kingdom; MUNICIPAL government; MARKETS &; society; URBAN life; RETAIL industry -- History; RETAIL industry; HISTORY
- Publication
Urban History, 2011, Vol 38, Issue 2, p256
- ISSN
0963-9268
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S096392681100040X