The third seminar in the 2025 Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution (CHORD) on-line seminar programme will be taking place on Monday 28 April 2025 (UK times)
Find out more here: https://retailhistory.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/2025-2/
The programme on 28 April is:
10.00 Seminar opens – welcome
10.05 – 10.35 Nick Gray, University of Wolverhampton, UK, ‘Men’s clothes: Aspects of retailing and consumption in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century provincial England’
10.40 – 11.10 John Lee, University of York, UK, ‘Booths, stalls and other structures in the fairs of medieval and Tudor England’
11.10 – 11.20 Break
11.20 – 11.50 Fredrik Sandgren, Uppsala University, Sweden, ‘Institutions and innovations in Swedish retailing 1720-1920’
11.55 – 12.25 Elin Åström Rudberg and Klara Arnberg, Stockholm University, Sweden, ‘ “Have it Your Way”: Marketing expertise and consumer culture from the oil crisis to the dot-com bubble’
Participation is free and open to all, but registration is required. If you would like to attend this or any of the other seminars, please e-mail Laura Ugolini at: l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk specifying which dates you would like to attend.
For further information, including 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: 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.