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The CHORD (Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution) Workshop
RETAILING, SHOPPING AND THE HOME 1500-2000
will be taking place on 28 APRIL 2004
at the University of Wolverhampton, UK
See below for the PROGRAMME Further information, including registration
form, abstracts and details of the venue can be found at
http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/home.htm CHORD web-pages:
http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/chord.html Or contact Laura Ugolini at
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10.00-10.30 Registration and coffee
10.30-11.00 Bruno Blondé and Ilja Van Damme, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Consumer changes and commercial circuits: Consuming and retailing in early
modern Antwerp
11.00-11.30 Sonia Ashmore, London College of Fashion, UK
>From Liberty to Lifestyle: How to buy the complete look in 1880s London
11.30-12.00 Coffee (Board Room, ground floor MA building)
12.00-12.30 Irene Cieraad, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
The milkman always rang twice .... The effects of changed provisioning on
Dutch domestic architecture in the twentieth century
12.30-13.00 Fiona Hackney, Falmouth College of Art, UK Magazine as Shop:
Marketing the Modern in British Women's Magazines 1919-1939
13.00-14.00 Lunch (Board Room, ground floor MA building)
14.00-14.30 Yasuko Suga, Saitama University, Japan
"Artistic and Commercial Japan": Japanese leather paper in British homes
14.30-15.00 Margaret Ponsonby, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Provincial Homemaking as Consumption Practice
15.00-15.30 Coffee (Board Room, ground floor MA building)
15.30-16.00 Claire Walsh, University of Warwick, UK Why it was better to
shop yourself – Shopping for the household in early-modern England and the
problem of servants
16.00-16.30 Richard Coopey, University of Aberystwyth and Dil Porter,
University College Worcester, UK Agency mail order revisited: home shopping
in the UK
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