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The CHORD conference on : 'Retailing and Distribution History' will take place at the University of Wolverhampton on 10 September 2015The programme, together with abstracts, registration details and further information, can be found at : http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/conf2015.htmThe programme includes :Christine Atha, University of Leeds,Shopping in the design museum: curating, collecting and shopping for designEmily Baines, De Montfort UniversityConcentrating on Fashion: the home market retail and distribution structure for British dress textiles 1919-40Lucy Bailey, University of Northampton and Jon Stobart, Manchester Metropolitan UniversityTaking a long look at the English village shopBruno Blondé, University of Antwerp and Jon Stobart, Manchester Metropolitan UniversityThe language of value: a comparative approach to newspaper advertisements for auctions of second-hand household goods in eighteenth-century England and the Low CountriesRika Fujioka, Kansai UniversityThe development of Japanese department stores along with the growing ready-made clothes market from the 1950s to the 1970sJanina Gosseye, Delft University of TechnologyThe Janus-faced suburban shopping centre: the Low Countries in search of a suitable shopping paradigmGraham Harding, St Cross College, OxfordCompetition is useless: Gilbey's and the emergence of modern retailing, 1855-1914Richard Hawkins, University of Wolverhampton and Hildegard Norton-Uhl, University of WolverhamptonPaprika Schlesinger: The Development of a Luxury Retail Shoe Brand in Belle Époque ViennaClare Hoare, King’s College LondonFemale business owners: a study of grocers in Edwardian LondonJennifer Holt,Retailing and wholesaling c 1600: a Lune Valley case studyUlla Ijäs, University of TurkuEnglish consumer goods in nineteenth-century St. Petersburg and its environsSarah Laurenson, University of Edinburgh‘In enclose herewith five compasses’: retailing jewellery and small luxuries in rural Scotland during the long nineteenth centuryLucile Peytavin, University of Lyon 2Female haberdashers and haberdashers in La Motte-de-Galaure and in the north of Drome in the nineteenth and twentieth centuriesMartin Purvis, University of LeedsRetailing in English suburbs during the 1920s and 1930s: development, deficiency and diversityGabi Schopf, Universität BernBuying and selling consumer goods in the eighteenth century: rural retailing in the Canton of BernPol Serrahima i Balius, Universitat de LleidaUrban grain markets and suburban agrarian communities: Barcelona and its surroundings in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuriesShelley Tickell, University of HertfordshireSelecting 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: home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/conf2015.htmOr contact Karin Dannehl at k.dannehl@wlv.ac.uk or Laura Ugolini, at: L.Ugolini@wlv.ac.ukInformation about CHORD events can also be found here: https://retailhistory.wordpress.com/Prof. Laura UgoliniProfessor of HistoryJoint editor, Textile HistoryDept. of History, Politics, War StudiesFaculty of Social SciencesRoom MC334University of WolverhamptonWolverhamptonWV1 1LY