What do the contents of your shopping basket (physical or digital) say about you? They are probably quite revealing about your tastes and your daily life. Just occasionally, we see a glimpse of day-to-day lives of previous generations thanks to the survival of a series of household bills, and one particularly interesting set held at Hampshire Record Office was preserved by Thomas J D Rawlins of Lymington, between 1905 and 1915 (73M81), each year’s bills being originally kept on a metal spike. In this post I will focus on a single year, 1907, to investigate what the Rawlins family was buying 110 years ago.
Hampshire Archives and Local Studies 