CHORD (the Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution) invites all interested researchers to a workshop devoted to the discussion of the relationship between commerce, information and knowledge in the period between the fifteenth and the twenty-first centuries.

More information can be found at: http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/knowledge.html

Among the questions that papers might address are: How did retailers and consumers acquire, spread and use commercial information? How was consumer knowledge obtained? What was the role of formal training and commercial education? How did awareness of innovation (and failures) spread? What was the role of advertising? 

Proposals are invited for twenty-minute papers exploring any aspect of this topic, and focusing on any geographical area.
Themes may include - but are not limited - to:

Please send proposals (including title and c. 200 words abstract) to the address below by 15 December 2006.

The workshop will be held at the University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton city campus.

For further information, please contact: Dr Laura Ugolini, HAGRI / HLSS, Room MC233, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, WV1 1SB, UK. 
E-mail: [log in to unmask]  Tel.: 01902 321890.

Workshop web-page: http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/knowledge.html

CHORD web-pages: http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/chord.html