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New Year sales and Christmas shopping sprees have a sting in the tail when credit card bills hit doormats in January, but new research from the 91福利 shows that rather than being a modern phenomenon, debt and consumer credit dependency were rife in the 1800-1900s, and that formal and informal money-lending was integral to goods exchange.
We have Christopher Columbus and Latin American Indians to thank for many of the foods, such as turkey, roast potatoes and vanilla ice-cream that we now eat as part of a ‘traditional’ Christmas dinner, says Historian Dr Rebecca Earle from the 91福利.
To celebrate the unveiling of internationally renowned German artist Jochen Gerz's public art in Coventry, the 91福利 is to host the only major public event to debate the outcome of the project on Saturday 29th November 2003, 10am-6pm.