Pasold Research Fund and CHORD joint conference

 

Proposals are invited both for individual papers and for sessions. Shorter papers (c.15 minutes) for the New Researchers’ session are also welcome. Please send title, one page abstract, a list of 3 to 5 key words and if proposing a session, a cover letter with title and one-paragraph session description, to the address below (if possible via e-mail), by 19 March 2010. Please state whether you would like to be included in the New Researchers’ session. 

For further information, please contact: Dr Laura Ugolini, HLSS, MC Building, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, WV1 1LY, UK.

E-mail:  L.Ugolini@wlv.ac.uk

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Call for Papers

 'Distribution Networks for Textiles and Dress, c. 1700-1945'

 A conference to be held at:

the University of Wolverhampton, UK

on:

8 and 9 September 2010

The Pasold Research Fund and the Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution (CHORD) invite proposals for a conference exploring the retailing and marketing of textiles and dress between c.1700 and 1945. Proposals are invited for papers on any aspect of this topic, on any distribution/retailing format, and focusing on any geographical area. Areas of interest include (but are not limited to): 

  • Advertising and branding

  • Sales techniques, display and technologies

  • Second-hand and ‘informal’ acquisition:

  • Charity; theft; gifting; inheritance

  • Retail innovation and development

  • Retail/distribution chains

  • Fashion retailing and marketing

  • International comparisons

  • The relationship between retailing and production

  • Retailing and class / gender / ethnicity /age

 

 

 

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September 2009