The CHORD (Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution). The programme, together with abstracts, registration details and further information, can be found at: http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/conf2015.htm
The programme includes:
Christine Atha, University of Leeds: Shopping in the design museum: curating, collecting and shopping for design
Emily Baines, De Montfort University: Concentrating on Fashion: the home market retail and distribution structure for British dress textiles 1919-40
Lucy Bailey, University of Northampton and Jon Stobart, Manchester Metropolitan University: Taking a long look at the English village shop
Bruno Blondé, University of Antwerp and Jon Stobart, Manchester Metropolitan University: The language of value: a comparative approach to newspaper advertisements for auctions of second-hand household goods in eighteenth-century England and the Low Countries
Rika Fujioka, Kansai University
The development of Japanese department stores along with the growing ready-made clothes market from the 1950s to the 1970s
Janina Gosseye, Delft University of Technology: The Janus-faced suburban shopping centre: the Low Countries in search of a suitable shopping paradigm
Graham Harding, St Cross College, Oxford: Competition is useless: Gilbey’s and the emergence of modern retailing, 1855-1914
Richard Hawkins, University of Wolverhampton and Hildegard Norton-Uhl, University of Wolverhampton: Paprika Schlesinger: The Development of a Luxury Retail Shoe Brand in Belle Époque Vienna
Clare Hoare, King’s College London: Female business owners: a study of grocers in Edwardian London
Jennifer Holt : Retailing and wholesaling c 1600: a Lune Valley case study
Ulla Ijäs, University of Turku: English consumer goods in nineteenth-century St. Petersburg and its environs
Sarah Laurenson, University of Edinburgh: In enclose herewith five compasses’: retailing jewellery and small luxuries in rural Scotland during the long nineteenth century
Lucile Peytavin, University of Lyon 2: Female haberdashers and haberdashers in La Motte-de-Galaure and in the north of Drome in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Martin Purvis, University of Leeds: Retailing in English suburbs during the 1920s and 1930s: development, deficiency and diversity
Gabi Schopf, Universität Bern: Buying and selling consumer goods in the eighteenth century: rural retailing in the Canton of Bern
Pol Serrahima i Balius, Universitat de Lleida: Urban grain markets and suburban agrarian communities: Barcelona and its surroundings in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries
Shelley Tickell, University of Hertfordshire: Selecting shops to steal from in the eighteenth century metropolis – which retailers were most vulnerable to shoplifting?
The conference will be held in the Millennium City Building, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton campus.
The fee is £26.
For further information and to register, please see the conference web-pages, at: http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/conf2015.htm
Or contact Karin Dannehl at k.dannehl@wlv.ac.uk or Laura Ugolini, at: L.Ugolini@wlv.ac.uk
Information about CHORD events can also be found here: https://retailhistory.wordpress.com/