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With apologies for cross-posting! CHORD WORKSHOP 24 April 2002 Marginal Retailing: Historical Approaches, 1500-2000 CHORD (the Committee for the History of Retailing and Distribution) invites all researchers interested marginal retailing and marginal retailers to participate in a one-day workshop. Speakers are: Wendy Thwaites, independent scholar, 'Licensed agricultural produce dealers: a marginal group'? Andrew Hann, University of Coventry, 'Defining the marginal retailer' Margaret Ponsonby, University of Wolverhampton, 'Working class necessity or middle class desirable commodity? Retailing second-hand furniture in the first half of the nineteenth century' Samantha Badger, University of Wolverhampton, 'Working-Class Self-Provisioning in the Black Country and Coventry; 1930 – 1960' The workshop will be held at The University of Wolverhampton Fee: £ 7. The fee may be waived for students and scholars unable to obtain institutional funding, but all participants are requested to register. For further information please contact Dr Laura Ugolini, Room MQ203/4, Quadrant Chambers, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, WV1 1SB, UK E-mail: [log in to unmask] Web-site (including workshop programme, abstracts, down-loadable registration form): http://pers-www.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/chapril.html ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: mail.wlv.ac.uk