Second 2025 CHORD on-line seminar on the history of retailing and distribution – 24 March 2025
Hello all, I’m very pleased to let you know that the second seminar in the 2025 Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution (CHORD) on-line seminar programme will be taking place on Monday 24 March 2025 (UK times)
Find out more here:
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The programme on 24 March is:
14.00 – 14.05 Seminar opens – welcome 14.05 – 14.35 Amy Edwards, University of Bristol, UK, ‘ “Freedom + Security = Satisfaction”: Business Franchising and Cultures of Enterprise in Post-War Britain’ 14.40 – 15.20 Two ‘work in progress’ ten-minute presentations: Dror Goldberg, The Open University of Israel, ‘Supplying Bicycles to the Boomtown of Tel Aviv, 1918-1939’ Catarina Ferreira, De Montfort University, UK, ‘To Display or To Hide: Selling the Corset’ 15.20 – 15.30 Break 15.30 – 16.00 Andrew Walker, independent scholar, UK, ‘The architectural impact of the chain store on Britain’s High Street, c. 1880-1939: A case study of Lincoln’ Participation is free and open to all, but registration is required. If you would like to attend this or any of the other seminars, please e-mail Laura Ugolini at:l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk <mailto:l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk> specifying which dates you would like to attend. For further information, including programme and abstracts, please see:
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or e-mail Laura Ugolini at: l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk <mailto:l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk> I hope these events will be of interest!
Best wishes
Laura
Professor of History University of Wolverhampton
NEW – 2025 CHORD on-line seminars on the history of retailing and distribution: retailhistory.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/2025-2/ <url6.mailanyone.net/scanner?m=1tp1f5-00000001mH9-41si&d=4%7Cmail%2F90%2F1740992400%2F1tp1f5-00000001mH9-41si%7Cin6r%7C57e1b682%7C10977208%7C9441127%7C67C56FAFA1E5A192DDF7DB0B1D72D170&o=%2Fphte%3A%2…> 50 free online copies – Book review of Policing the Home Front 1914–1918: The Control of the British Population at War by Mary Fraser: Full article: Policing the Home Front 1914–1918: The Control of the British Population at War <www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PY3GAPXMRZBSF8DI4TS2/full?target=10.1080/19475020.2024.2363567> Open access article ‘Middle-class Fathers, Sons, and Mental Illness in Late Victorian and Edwardian England’, Journal of Family History, 2024 Middle-class Fathers, Sons, and Mental Illness in Late Victorian and Edwardian England – Laura Ugolini, 2024 (sagepub.com) <journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03631990241240487>
Find out more here:
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The programme on 24 March is:
14.00 – 14.05 Seminar opens – welcome 14.05 – 14.35 Amy Edwards, University of Bristol, UK, ‘ “Freedom + Security = Satisfaction”: Business Franchising and Cultures of Enterprise in Post-War Britain’ 14.40 – 15.20 Two ‘work in progress’ ten-minute presentations: Dror Goldberg, The Open University of Israel, ‘Supplying Bicycles to the Boomtown of Tel Aviv, 1918-1939’ Catarina Ferreira, De Montfort University, UK, ‘To Display or To Hide: Selling the Corset’ 15.20 – 15.30 Break 15.30 – 16.00 Andrew Walker, independent scholar, UK, ‘The architectural impact of the chain store on Britain’s High Street, c. 1880-1939: A case study of Lincoln’ Participation is free and open to all, but registration is required. If you would like to attend this or any of the other seminars, please e-mail Laura Ugolini at:l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk <mailto:l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk> specifying which dates you would like to attend. For further information, including programme and abstracts, please see:
retailhistory.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/2025-2/ <url6.mailanyone.net/scanner?m=1tp1f5-00000001mH9-41si&d=4%7Cmail%2F90%2F1740992400%2F1tp1f5-00000001mH9-41si%7Cin6r%7C57e1b682%7C10977208%7C9441127%7C67C56FAFA1E5A192DDF7DB0B1D72D170&o=%2Fphte%3A%2…>
or e-mail Laura Ugolini at: l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk <mailto:l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk> I hope these events will be of interest!
Best wishes
Laura
Professor of History University of Wolverhampton
NEW – 2025 CHORD on-line seminars on the history of retailing and distribution: retailhistory.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/2025-2/ <url6.mailanyone.net/scanner?m=1tp1f5-00000001mH9-41si&d=4%7Cmail%2F90%2F1740992400%2F1tp1f5-00000001mH9-41si%7Cin6r%7C57e1b682%7C10977208%7C9441127%7C67C56FAFA1E5A192DDF7DB0B1D72D170&o=%2Fphte%3A%2…> 50 free online copies – Book review of Policing the Home Front 1914–1918: The Control of the British Population at War by Mary Fraser: Full article: Policing the Home Front 1914–1918: The Control of the British Population at War <www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PY3GAPXMRZBSF8DI4TS2/full?target=10.1080/19475020.2024.2363567> Open access article ‘Middle-class Fathers, Sons, and Mental Illness in Late Victorian and Edwardian England’, Journal of Family History, 2024 Middle-class Fathers, Sons, and Mental Illness in Late Victorian and Edwardian England – Laura Ugolini, 2024 (sagepub.com) <journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03631990241240487>