The 1930s witnessed Britain’s first major boom in working-class owner-occupation. Purchasers typically came from cramped, rented, inner-urban accommodation, and, only a few years previously, would not have considered the possibility of buying a new house. Such perceptions were transformed by...

This paper examines strategies used by durable goods retailers to create a mass market in interwar Britain, via a case-study of domestic furniture. Interwar demand for new furniture witnessed particularly rapid growth - mainly owing to the extension of the market to lower-income groups. A number...

<title/> SCOTT P. (1998) The location of early overseas multinationals in Britain, 1900-1939: patterns and determinants, <italic>Reg. Studies</italic> 32, 489-501. This paper examines the location patterns of early overseas multinationals in Britain over the period 1900-1939, together with the factors influencing their...