This volume examines hotels, inns, restaurants, and travelling on luxurious trains and ships. The volume also explores social rituals, consumer culture, and issues of class and gender as well as the institutions of travelling for health, education, or any other purpose.

This volume explores institutions such as department stores, other shopping venues like drapers, as well as specialist stores that sell "luxury items". The violume also includes material on the Crystal Palace and other "colonial" exhibitions, shopping arcades, bazaars, and planned shopping venues that did not materialise.