Date / time
10 September, All day
Location
University of Wolverhampton. MC Building
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/