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In 1922, Adolphe Shrager having made his fortune during the First World War, approached the London dealer Basil Dighton for advice on purchasing antique furniture. Dighton sold him about five hundred items but shortly afterwards Shrager discovered that one of his 'collector's pieces' was judged to be a fake and grossly over-priced, and he sued. The trial, held in early 1923, became a cause celebre, but it can be viewed as a case study of a much wider set of social and cultural concerns: the fact that Shrager lost both the first trial and the appeal, despite demonstrating on numerous occasions

Trials (Fraud) --- Antiques --- Furniture --- Forgeries --- Purchasing --- Shrager, Adolph. --- Dighton, B. L.

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In a New Light explores the vital place of women in the shift to fossil fuels that spurred the Industrial Revolution, illuminating the variety of ways in which gender and energy intersected in women's lives in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe and North America. Together these essays deepen our understanding of the significance of gender in the history of energy, and of energy transitions in the history of women and gender.

Energy consumption --- Social aspects. --- 1800-1999 --- British. --- Canadian. --- Irish. --- candles. --- demonstrators. --- domestic energy. --- electricity. --- energy. --- engineers. --- fear. --- future energy choices. --- gas. --- heat. --- history home. --- light. --- oil. --- social history. --- suffrage. --- womens history.