Calendar

Selected sources

Books and articles - Australian

Beverley Kingston, Basket, bag and trolley: a history of shopping in Australia, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1994

Frances Pollon, Shopkeepers and shoppers: a social history of retailing in New South Wales from 1788, Retail Traders' Association of NSW, Sydney, 1989

Gail Reekie, Temptations: sex, selling, and the department store, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards NSW, 1993

Thomas J Redmond,  The history of Anthony Hordern and Sons Limited, Hordernian Monthly - January 1938: Australia's 150th anniversary number, Sydney, 1938

Howard Wolfers, 'The big stores between the wars', Twentieth Century Sydney: studies in urban and social history, Hale & Iremonger in association with the Sydney History Group, Sydney, 1980, pp.18-33

Journals

Building: the magazine for the architect, builder, property owner & merchant, Building Publishing Co, Sydney, 1907-1942

The M.R.A. Journal, Sydney, 1919-1921
The Journal of the Retail Traders' Association of N.S.W., Sydney, 1921-1963

Books - International

Clive Edwards, Turning houses into homes: a history of the retailing and consumption of domestic furnishings, Aldershot Hants., Ashgate, 2005

William Lancaster, The department store: a social history, Leicester University Press, London, 1995

William Leach, Land of desire: merchants, power, and the rise of a new American culture, Pantheon Books, New York, 1993

Michael B Miller, The Bon Marche: bourgeois culture and the department store 1869-1920, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1981

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