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Factory Tourism in Inter-war Britain: The Spectacular Construction of Social-Democratic Mass Production (2025)
Journal Article
Hornsey, R. (in press). Factory Tourism in Inter-war Britain: The Spectacular Construction of Social-Democratic Mass Production. Modern British History,

In the 1920s and 1930s, many British manufacturers opened their factories to hundreds of thousands of ordinary consumers. In part, this was a response to an increasingly competitive market for branded household commodities, in which visitors were off... Read More about Factory Tourism in Inter-war Britain: The Spectacular Construction of Social-Democratic Mass Production.

A British Chain Store Out of Place: Boots The Chemists in Suva, Fiji, 1944-1964 (2025)
Journal Article
Greenwood, A., Hornsey, R., & Ingram, H. (in press). A British Chain Store Out of Place: Boots The Chemists in Suva, Fiji, 1944-1964. Journal of Pacific History,

In 1944, Boots The Chemists, the UK's leading retail pharmacy chain, opened a store in Suva, Fiji. It lasted less than twenty years. The brief and troubled history of this store – hitherto untold – reveals a great deal about imperialist retail cultur... Read More about A British Chain Store Out of Place: Boots The Chemists in Suva, Fiji, 1944-1964.