'RETAILING AND DISTRIBUTION HISTORY': A CONFERENCE TO MARK 10 YEARS OF CHORD

9 and 10 September 2009
University of Wolverhampton, UK

The Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution invites participants to a conference marking its tenth anniversary.

The conference programme, abstracts and registration details are available from the conference web-pages, at: http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/2009conf.html

The 2009 CHORD New Research Prize will also be awarded at the conference. For further information, see: http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/prize2009.html

The conference programme includes plenary papers by Erika Rappaport, Jon Stobart and Andrew Alexander, and sessions on:

Selling principles
Distribution chains
Food distribution
Selling tactics
Towns and neighbourhoods
Markets
Retail spaces
Techniques of selling
Selling and buying at auction
Changing the 'local' high street. Moving from 1950 to a sustainable 2050
Consumption and shopping
Selling the modern body, 1870-1950

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

The conference is supported by a grant from the Royal Historical Society