Shopgirls (43 page)

Stoddart’s drapery store, Witney, Oxfordshire 3

‘The Store’ 103

Store Management
170

street-sellers 68

strikes 99, 108–9, 117, 118, 124, 155, 157–60, 168, 218–19

Sufffrage Annual Who’s Who
119

Suffragette, The
(play) 119

Suffragette, The
(magazine) 119

suffragism 118–25

Sunderland 107–8

Sunderland Co-op Society 107–8

Sunlight soap 134

Sutherst, Thomas 46–7, 49;
Death and Disease behind the Counter
46–7

Sutherland, Lucy Christiana (Lucile) 79–81

Swan & Edgar 119, 122, 228

sweated trades 113, 115

Tait, William 55;
An Inquiry into the Extent, Causes and Consequences of Prostitution in Edinburgh
56

Tatler
207

Taylor, Doris 198

Taylor, Frederick Winslow 130, 173

Taylorism 130

Teeton’s drapers, Hanley 117

textile workers 16, 34, 43, 49, 50, 94, 120, 155, 159, 228

Thatcher, Margaret 230–2, 233

theatre 87–9, 90, 119, 142, 159

They Also Serve
(documentary) 184–5

Thompson, Alice 198

Thompson, Mrs Gilchrist 95

tie-ins 171

Times, The
44, 45, 141, 157, 179, 181

Top Gear 210

trade boards 114–15

trade unions 93, 95, 98–103, 106, 108, 110, 111, 112, 114, 115–18, 120, 121, 125, 145, 152, 156–9, 218, 220, 221, 224

Traders’ Defence League 105

Trades Union Congress (TUC) 102, 221

Tradesman and Shopkeeper
105

Trollope, Anthony 66, 85

Tuffin, Sally 212

Turner, Louisa 90

Twenty Club 127

21 Shop 212, 213

Twiggy (Lesley Hornby) 213

unemployment 56, 90, 155, 160, 162, 168, 173, 215–16

Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW) 218, 221

United Shop Assistants Union of London 99

universities 49, 107, 124, 146, 162, 214, 219, 223

upper class 28, 71, 137

V-1 flying bombs 197–8

Vanity Fair
123

‘variety’ chain store, inter-war boom in 170–1

Vicious, Sid 227

Victoria and Albert, London 210

Victoria, Queen: Golden Jubilee 68

Vigilance Committee of London 59

Vogue
204, 207, 213

Vote, The
119

Votes for Women
119, 120, 123

W.H. Smith 229

W.H. Watts 144

Waitrose 230

Walkers 150

Wallis 227

war work 143–52, 179–200
see also
First World War; Second World War

War Emergency Committee 149

War Office 144, 156

‘War of the Windows’ 122

Ward, Mary 9

Warhol, Andy 210

Wells, H.G. 17

Wesleyan Methodists 25

West End, London 44, 53, 54, 56, 59, 81, 95–6, 113, 119, 122, 158, 229,
see also
London

West End London Street Scene, A
(poster) 199

Westwood, Vivien 227

Wey, Francis:
Les Anglais Chez Eux
(
The British at Home
) 8

Whiteley, Harriet 18, 20, 21, 63–4

Whiteley, William 16, 17, 18–22, 26–7, 30, 37–8, 63–4, 71, 90–1, 137, 139, 196. 234

Whiteley’s, Bayswater xiii, 18–22, 26–7, 30, 37–8, 41, 63, 66, 67, 71, 72, 75, 85, 108, 137, 139, 157–8, 209, 228

Wholesale Textile 159

Wilkinson, Tudor 80

Williams and Hopkins, Bournemouth 213

Wilson, Harold 218

window-dressing 141–2, 198

Wisbech 4–6, 7, 10, 16, 23, 34

Wise, Audrey 221

Woman Question 11

Women’s Christian Temperance Union, U.S. 87

Women’s Co-operative Guild 106, 107, 108, 115, 116, 118, 120

Women’s Industrial Council 94, 95, 113, 118

Women’s Liberation Movement 222–3

Women’s Own
204

Women’s Press 122

Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) 118, 120, 121, 123

Women’s Voluntary Service 180

Wood-Allen, Dr Mary 87;
What a Young Woman Ought to Know
87

Woodward, Henrietta 3

Woolf, Virginia xi–xii, xv

Woollands, Knightsbridge 212, 213

Woolwich Arsenal, London 151–2

Woolworth, Frank W. 167

Woolworths 166–7, 170, 180, 188, 191, 196, 197

Worcester 55

working mothers 216

Working Women’s Charter 221

Worth, Charles 77–8, 79

Young, Rosie 209

Young, Sarah 209

Zola, Émile xii–xiii;
The Ladies’ Paradise
xii, xiii

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