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A brief history of the backpack: from soldier's kit to commuter staple The backpack looks like a recent invention, a piece of gear designed for the last few decades of commuting. In fact it is one of the oldest ways of carrying things that still works, and today's commuter version is a direct descendant of equipment that is five thousand years old....
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A Short History of the British Holdall
A short history of the British holdall The British holdall did not arrive as a fashion item. It arrived as a piece of working kit, the bag a doctor or a commercial traveller threw into the back of a carriage for two nights, and it evolved into the weekend travel bag almost by accident. The shape and the name stuck because the...
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