A lifetime in over 100 objects
A lifetime in over 100 objects
This collection of images of post-war British goods, advertising and kitchen ephemera shows the past iterations of the familiar brands of today, such as W H Smith, Boots and Happy Shopper, showing contemporary readers a bygone aesthetic of domestic life
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Accumulated over many years, 'Granny', the enigmatic collector behind this book, presents a selection of quirky post-war goods, advertising and kitchen items. After the end of austerity in Britain in the early 1950s, consumerism boomed and these objects portray the societal change that followed.