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Shops on the Strand: women in business in early modern Westminster, 1600-1740

By Sarah Birt | 26 October 2020 | 3
Mrs Holt's Italian Warehouse detail British Museum after Hogarth

In October I began work in earnest on a new research project, which will illuminate the lives of women in business on the Strand in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. I am particularly looking forward to uncovering all sorts of material on the myriad shops in this location, whether at street level or in…

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