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We are very pleased to announce that the next CHORD workshop on:'Retailing, Commerce and the Human Body: Historical Approaches'will take place at the University of Wolverhamptonon 14 May 2014The programme, together with abstracts, registration details and further information, can be found at:http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/bodies.htmThe PROGRAMME includes:Fan Carter, Kingston University, Getting the ‘Honey Look’: Magazines, Marketing and the Teenage Consumer in 1960s BritainJenny Evans, University of Wolverhampton, Purity, Piety and Pants: The ‘Religious Body’ in Early-Twentieth Century British Underwear MarketingSusan Vincent, University of York, Hairdressers and Barbers: Intimate ActsElly Tams, University of Exeter, Real Men Moisturise: Advertising, 'Male Grooming' and Metrosexual Masculinities in Contemporary Consumer CulturePhil Lyon, Liz Ross and Craig Cathcart, Queen Margaret University, Offering Hope: Aurists’ Advertisements in Mid-Nineteenth Century British NewspapersSamantha Khaw, Australian National University, The Challenge of Marketing Colour Cosmetics in Nineteenth Century British Popular PressJune Rowe, University of the Arts, Marketing Youthful Femininity: The Fashion Display Mannequin and British Style 1947-1970Victoria Barnes and Lucy Newton, University of Reading, Portraits of Bank Managers: Buying the Corporate Image in the Early Nineteenth CenturyShirley Wajda, Michigan State University Museum, ‘Social Currency’: Photography, Personhood, and the Body in Nineteenth-Century AmericaYa-Lei Yen, Royal Holloway, University of London, ‘Let the Photographer “Pose” You; He is the Best Judge of your Face and Figure’: Female Beauty and Fashion in Mid-Victorian PhotographsThe workshop will take place in room MH206/7, Mary Seacole Building, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton.The fee is £18.For further information and to register, please see the workshop web- pages, at: home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/bodies.htmOr contact Laura Ugolini, at:L.Ugolini@wlv.ac.ukor Karin Dannehl, atK.Dannehl@wlv.ac.ukNews about CHORD events can now also be found here: http:// retailhistory.wordpress.com/about/CHORD web-pages: http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/chord.html