The fifth (and final!) on-line seminar in the 2025 Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution (CHORD) seminar programme will be taking place on Monday 23 June 2025 (UK times)
Find out more here:
https://retailhistory.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/2025-2/
The PROGRAMME on 23 June is:
10.00 Seminar opens – welcome
10.05 – 10.35 Nicole Davis, University of Melbourne, Australia, ‘Women Business Owners and Australia’s Nineteenth-century Arcades: Local Communities, Global Connections’
10.40 – 11.10 Richard Nockolds, independent scholar, UK, ‘The National Cash Register Company 1888 – 1893, Building a Network of Sales Agents’
11.15 – 11.45 Iurii Zhukov, Tyumen Museum-Educational Association, Russia, ‘In the light of the throne and in the shadows: English retail trade in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Russia’
11.45 – 12.00 Break
12.00 – 12.30 Rachel Carroll, Teesside University, UK, ‘From the tally man to “pay-as-you-wear”: consumer credit, women’s wear and clothing poverty in post-war British women’s writing’
12.35 – 13.05 Nick Bailey, University of Leeds, UK, ‘Flora Solomon and the development of the Marks and Spencer Staff Welfare Programme 1931 to 1956’
Participation is free and open to all, but registration is required. If you would like to attend, please e-mail Laura Ugolini at: l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk
For further information, please see:
https://retailhistory.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/2025-2/
or e-mail Laura Ugolini at: l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk
Image: detail from Utagawa (Gountei) Sadahide, Foreign Business Establishment in Yokohama. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005.