Joanne Sear teaches a range of local history courses at the Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge. Her research focusses on consumption and trade in the Middle Ages and she is currently working on a volume on the manorial records of late medieval Newmarket.Ken Sneath lectures in early modern history at the University of Cambridge and was formerly Assistant Director of Studies for Economic History at Peterhouse College. Ken has published articles on consumption and is a contributor to the forthcoming volume on the Huntingdonshire Hearth Tax.

• Introduction; 1. The consumer revolution; 2. Sources and interpretations; 3. Food and drink; 4. Clothing; 5. The home environment; 6. Religious consumption; 7. When and where did the consumer revolution take place?; 8 Social groups; 9. Who benefited from the consumer revolution?; 10. Conclusions; Appendix and Glossary

Joanne Sear teaches a range of local history courses at the Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge. Her research focusses on consumption and trade in the Middle Ages and she is currently working on a volume on the manorial records of late medieval Newmarket.Ken Sneath lectures in early modern history at the University of Cambridge and was formerly Assistant Director of Studies for Economic History at Peterhouse College. Ken has published articles on consumption and is a contributor to the forthcoming volume on the Huntingdonshire Hearth Tax.

• Introduction; 1. The consumer revolution; 2. Sources and interpretations; 3. Food and drink; 4. Clothing; 5. The home environment; 6. Religious consumption; 7. When and where did the consumer revolution take place?; 8 Social groups; 9. Who benefited from the consumer revolution?; 10. Conclusions; Appendix and Glossary