The fourth seminar in the 2025 Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution (CHORD) seminar programme will be taking place, both in-person and on-line, on Monday 12 May 2025 (UK times)
Find out more here:
https://retailhistory.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/2025-2/
The programme on 12 May is:
PROGRAMME (UK times)
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 14.05 Welcome
14.05 – 14.45 Rachel Bowlby, University College London, UK, ‘Browse, Borrow, Buy: Bookshop Histories’
14.50 – 15.30 Léa Leboissetier, Antwerp University, Belgium, ‘ “When people heard the call, they knew exactly what it was.” Interactions between doorstep traders and their customers in working-class autobiographies (1850-1950)’
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break
16.00 – 16.40 Jon Stobart, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, ‘Household auctions and the recirculation of domestic goods in Jamaica, 1700-1790’
Participation is free and open to all, both in person and on-line but registration is required. If you would like to attend, please e-mail Laura Ugolini at: l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk specifying whether you would like to attend in-person or online. If in-person, please let me know if you have any catering requirements.
The in-person seminar will take place in Room MU006, Lord Swraj Paul Building, Wolverhampton City Campus Molineux.
For further information, including location, programme and abstracts, please see:
https://retailhistory.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/2025-2/
or e-mail Laura Ugolini at: l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk
Image credit: detail of Utagawa (Gountei) Sadahide, Foreign Business Establishment in Yokohama Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005.