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The CHORD conference on : 'Retailing and Distribution before 1600' will take place at the University of Wolverhampton on 15 September 2016.The programme, together with abstracts, registration details and further information, can be found at: http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/conf2016.htmThe programme includes:Graham Barton, University of Gloucestershire, UK | Images of Roman RetailersStuart Brookes, UCL Institute of Archaeology, UK | Reassessing the transport geography of early medieval EnglandLuca Clerici, University of Padova, Italy &#38; École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France | Provisioning the marketplace: shoppers, hucksters, and direct sellers in early modern Italy (Vicenza, sixteenth century)Emilie Fiorucci, European University Institute, Italy | Disciplining trade: the statutes of the Venetian mercers’ guild in the 16th centuryZoe Hudson, University of Kent, UK | The Shopping Networks of Richard StonleyUna McIlvenna, University of Kent, UK | The street singer of news in early modern EuropeEljas Oksanen, Portable Antiquities Scheme, British Museum, UK | Medieval Markets and Fairs seen through the Portable Antiquities Scheme DataMark Page, Victoria County History of Oxfordshire, UK | Who were the shopkeepers of medieval England?Bethany Pleydell, University of Bristol, UK | ‘A most necessary forreyne commodytie for the lande’: Spanish Leather Exports for an English Market, c.1554-1600Catherine Richardson, University of Kent, UK | ‘buy mee a close stoole at london’: domestic shopping between London and the provincesMartin Roberts, independent researcher and consultant on the Pewter Wreck project, UK | The Overseas Trade of London’s Pewterers in the first half of the 16th Century – evidence from shipwrecks and the archives.Tabitha Stanmore, University of Bristol / University of Exeter, UK | Make it rain: cunning folk and the sale of magical services in England, 1350-1650Kate Kelsey Staples, West Virginia University, US | Materiality and Meaning: Goods as Legal and Cultural CurrencyPhilip Tromans, De Montfort University, UK | Inside Elizabethan BookshopsPaul Williams, University of Exeter, UK | Shop Fines in Early Tudor ExeterThe conference will be held at the University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton City Campus.The fee is £22.For further information and to register, please see the conference web-pages, at: home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/conf2016.htmOr contact Laura Ugolini, at: L.Ugolini@wlv.ac.ukInformation about CHORD events can also be found here:https://retailhistory.wordpress.com/