Reminder:
Call for Papers
2007 ABH and CHORD Conference

BUSINESS LINKS:
Trade, Distribution and Networks

A conference to be held on:
29 and 30 June 2007
at:
the University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK

The Association of Business Historians (ABH) and the Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution (CHORD) invite proposals for a joint conference to explore the history of trade, distribution, business networks and retailing. All historical periods, geographical areas and methodological approaches are welcome. Themes of interest include, but are not limited, to:

· International, national, regional and local trade

· Business networks

· ‘Middlemen’ and wholesalers

· The internet and on-line commerce

· Transport, river and maritime trade

· Financial and stock markets

· Trade, consumers and consumption

· Knowledge transfer

· Commercial innovation and entrepreneurship

· The retail trade and retail employment

· Trade, the state and regulation

· Economic migrants and migration

· War, trade and the military

Organisers also welcome papers on any topics related to business history, even where they do not focus on the conference theme.

Proposals are welcome either for individual papers or sessions (generally one-and-half hours). Please send one page abstract, a list of 3 to 5 key words, brief CV and if proposing a session, a cover letter with title and one-paragraph session description (if possible via e-mail), to the address below by 31 January 2007.

CHORD web-pages: http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/chord.html

ABH web-pages: http://www.busman.qmul.ac.uk/abh/

Conference web-pages: http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/2007conf.html

For more information, please contact: Laura Ugolini, HAGRI / HLSS, University of Wolverhampton, Room MC233, MC Building, Wolverhampton, WV1 1SB.

Tel.: (044) 01902 321890. E-mail: l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk