19th CENTURY TRADE MAGAZINES eg Meat Trades Journal (for butchers)
Trade magazines contain biographies & obituaries, wills, news reports & court cases, verbatim reports of what was said at trade organisation meetings (eg. on the Early Closing Bill), job, premises & product adverts, partnerships entered into & dissolved, bankruptcies etc. etc.!
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Andrew Webb commented
Useful for a social history of the Victorian-era UK butchery i'm working on