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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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BhS
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(British Home Stores) Chain of stores, the first of which opened in the London district of Brixton in 1928. Financed by Americans, it was designed as a slightly less downmarket version of Woolworths; where Woolworths' top price for any item was sixpence, British Home Stores' was twice as high at a shilling (the level was raised in 1929 to five shillings to allow for drapery departments). The name was changed to BhS in 1986, with a new logo designed by Terence Conran's group, after BhS had merged with Conran's Habitat and Mothercare to form Storehouse.
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