... Germany’.depiction of the ubiquity of women in business, and examines theirappearance in advertising, at the centre of business networks and theirphysical presence as traders in town centres. It also examines ... service, retailing, and small-scale manufactur-ing industries in the industrial towns of the north of England. Moreover, we remain largely ignorant of the ways in which society in these places ... Wrigley,Continuity, Chance and Change: The Character of the Industrial Revolution in England (Cambridge, 1988); Maxine Berg, The Age of Manufactures, 1700–1820: Industry,Innovation and Work in Britain,...