Gudrun Andersson – författare

När adelsdamen Anna Johanna Grill 1788 reste till England gjorde det stora utbudet av konsumtionsvaror ett djupt intryck. Hon reflekterar i sin resedagbok över de många bodarnas rikedom av varor. Somliga bodar saluför endast pennor och papper, en annan bara käppar, ytterligare en specialiserar sig på strumpor och så vidare. Hon noterar att engelsmännen exponerar sina varor på ett sätt som narrar folk att handla .

Hur såg det ut i Stockholm vid samma tid? Fanns det särskilda shoppingstråk, vem sålde, vem handlade och vilka varor stod till buds? Hur såg marknadsföringen ut och betalades varor med likvida medel eller handlades det på kredit?

I den rikt illustrerade antologin Shopping i Stockholm. Sociala praktiker på gatunivå, 1700-1850 får vi veta mer om Anna Johanna Grill, men även om Årstafrun Märta Helena Reenstierna; nipperhandlaren Peter Wahnberg; friherren Axel von Fersen; drottning Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte och hennes kammarjungfru; sidenhandlaren Herman Grewesmühl; skådespelerskorna Lisette Stenberg och Sophia Wäström; kramhandlare Jeremias Sandborg; perukmakare Carl Gustaf Lindström med många fler.

De elva artikelförfattarna är forskare från skilda discipliner och vetenskapliga traditioner. De visar att den nya tidens shoppingstråk med dess varuutbud av sidentyger, nipper, modegravyrer, smide, peruker och hårpomador inte bara tillgodosåg konsumenternas behov, utan möjliggjorde även drömmar om nya identiteter och en bättre position i samhället, för sig och de sina.

This book explores the ways in which the lives and routines of a wide range of people across different parts of Europe and the wider world were structured and played out through everyday practices. It focuses on the detail of individual lives and how these were shaped by spaces and places, by movement and material culture – both the buildings they occupied and the objects they used in their everyday lives. Drawing on original research by a range of established and emerging scholars, each chapter peers into the lives of people from various social groups as they went about their daily lives, from citizens on the streets to aristocrats at home in their country houses, and from the urban elite at leisure to seamen on board ships bound for the East Indies. For all these people, daily routines were important in structuring their lives, giving them a rhythm that was knowable and meaningful in its temporal regularity, be that daily, weekly, or seasonal. So too were their everyday encounters and relationships with other people, within and beyond the home; these shaped their practices, movements, and identities and thus served to mould society in a broader sense.

This book explores the ways in which the lives and routines of a wide range of people across different parts of Europe and the wider world were structured and played out through everyday practices. It focuses on the detail of individual lives and how these were shaped by spaces and places, by movement and material culture – both the buildings they occupied and the objects they used in their everyday lives. Drawing on original research by a range of established and emerging scholars, each chapter peers into the lives of people from various social groups as they went about their daily lives, from citizens on the streets to aristocrats at home in their country houses, and from the urban elite at leisure to seamen on board ships bound for the East Indies. For all these people, daily routines were important in structuring their lives, giving them a rhythm that was knowable and meaningful in its temporal regularity, be that daily, weekly, or seasonal. So too were their everyday encounters and relationships with other people, within and beyond the home; these shaped their practices, movements, and identities and thus served to mould society in a broader sense.