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Single people and the world of goodsSaturday 9 November 2013University of WolverhamptonThe Economic History Society, Women’s Committee Workshop in 2013 seeks to examine how singleness was experienced and expressed through material culture.  The central focus of the workshop will be on consumption, economic independence, and material culture relating to spinsters, bachelors and the widowed between the 17th and 19th centuries.10.15am:              Registration and coffee11.00am:              Welcome11.15am:              Diana Russell (Bath Spa University)‘Location and Relocation’ Bath’s Female Run Businesses c1800-185111.45am:              Amy Louise Erickson (Cambridge University)Capital acquisition by apprentices in the London clothing trades c.170012.15pm:             Derek Janes (University of Exeter)John Nisbet of Gunsgreen House and his housekeeper Janet Ferguson12.45pm:             Judith Spicksley (University of York)Ribbons, curls and a coach: the importance of appearance for the gentle spinster in seventeenth century Hereford1.15pm:                Lunch2.15pm:                Britt Denis (University of Antwerp)Singled out (in) the ideal of domesticity? 19th century homemakers in Antwerp and Ghent2.45pm:                Presentations by PhD candidates3.15                        Pamela Sharpe (University of Tasmania)The world of Hester Pinney c.1680-1740: problems and progress3.45pm                 Jane Hamlett (Royal Holloway University of London)‘None of That Rotten Effeminate Stuff Here’? Domesticity and Material Culture in English Public Schools, 1840-19184.15pm:                Tea and closeFor abstracts, maps of location and suggestions for overnight accommodation please see the webpage http://www.wlv.ac.uk/default.aspx?page=34565The workshop will be held at the University of Wolverhampton’s main campus a few minutes’ walk from the train station.To book, please complete and return the slip below.For further information please contact Margaret Ponsonby M.Ponsonby@wlv.ac.uk&#60;mailto:M.Ponsonby@wlv.ac.uk&#62; and David Hussey D.P.Hussey@wlv.ac.uk&#60;mailto:D.P.Hussey@wlv.ac.uk&#62;………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………Booking form for the 24th Annual Women’s Committee WorkshopWorkshop fees, inclusive of all refreshments: £25 non-members; £20 members of the Economic History Society; £15 unwaged.  Ten free places are available for students on a first-come first-served basis; please provide evidence of status with your booking form.Name:Institution:Postal Address:                                                                                    Post code:Email Address:Dietary or other requirements:Please tick if you would like to go for a drink and/or a meal following the workshopDrink…………..Meal………..Cheque (made payable to the ‘Economic History Society’) enclosed for:Please return to Dr Margaret Ponsonby, LSSC, University of Wolverhampton, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, WV1 1LY, by Monday 28/10/13