| Description | Track 1: Unidentified person talks about England and the raw materials that could be found there for the purpose of commerce, 0.44 mins
Track 2: Unidentified people talk about commerce in England, in particular, wages paid to the workers; unknown song; unidentified people talk about lazy workers in England; unidentified person talks about limitations made on imports/exports in 1060 AD; unidentified person talks about 'political arithmetic', 3.00 mins
Track 3: Unidentified people talk about 'political arithmetic'; unidentified people talk about commerce and wages, 2.56 mins
Track 4: Unidentified person discusses the gap between the rich and poor in the 17th century and the process of enclosure; unidentified person discusses being a seaman; unknown song; unidentified person talks about the East India trade; 3.31 mins
Track 5: Unidentified person discusses Liverpool; unknown song; unidentified people discuss being a seaman; 2.43 mins
Track 6: Unidentified person discusses merchants; unidentified people discuss commerce; unidentified person discusses Abraham Darby, unidentified person talk about stocks/shares; 4.04 mins
Track 7: Unidentified person talks about working in a shop; unidentified person talks about tea drinking; unidentified person talks about tobacco, tea, sugar and gin; unidentified person talks about Samuel and (Aaron?) Walker; unidentified person talks about employment; unidentified person recites an inventory of stock at the iron works at (Coalbrook Dale?), taken July 1718, 2.50 mins
Track 8: Unidentified person explains business to his grandson; unidentified people discuss commerce, merchants and luxury; unknown song, 3.38 mins
Track 9: Unidentified person discusses the concept of 'the standard of living'; unidentified people discuss Gaelic society in highland Scotland around the time of the rebellion of 1745; unknown song and recitations of literature; 3.09 mins
Track 10: Unidentified people discuss the battle of Culloden; unidentified person discusses the effect of the rebellion on trade; unidentified person discusses a man who was hanged for forgery, 2.50 mins
Track 11: Unidentified person discusses the foreign view of England and the English tastes for luxury; unidentified person discusses the 'good ship called the Mary (Butter?)' and its cargo of slaves bound for Georgia, South Carolina; unidentified person discusses the losses of slaves and crew members on slave ships; 2.17 mins
Track 12: Unidentified person discusses cotton and pots and pans entering the mass market in the 1780s; unidentified person discusses cleaning duties; unidentified person discusses the potteries of Burslem and Mr. Wedgwood; 2.14 mins
Track 13: Unidentified person discusses canals and their effects on roofing materials; unidentified people discuss 'castings made' and iron; unidentified people discuss engineers; 3.37 mins
Track 14: Unidentified person discusses the clothing trade; unidentified person discusses the necessity of keeping the working classes poor; unknown song; unidentified person discusses Samuel Walker; unidentified people discuss tea drinking; unidentified person recites an advert for a grocer; 3.24 mins
Track 15: Unidentified person discusses her husband's brewery and the need to restrict production; unidentified person discusses 'porter' - "a thick, black stout"; unidentified person discusses the sale of her brewery; 2.19 mins
Track 16: Credits of the programme "Nation of shopkeepers" (which is programme 11 in the series, The Long March of Everyman) which gives the names of the readers, commentators and other people involved in the making of the programme, 1.10 mins
Track 17: Start of programme "Story Time: Masterman Ready by Capt. Marryat", 0.47 mins
Track 18: Silence, 5.03
Total: 50.18 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA 2of2 KF571E0013480 |