The Retailing and Distribution of Books and Printed Material: Historical Perspectives 17 March 2010

CHORD WORKSHOP:

The Retailing and Distribution of Books and Printed Material: Historical Perspectives

17 March 2010

University of Wolverhampton, UK

The Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution invites participants to a workshop devoted to a discussion of the retailing and distribution of books and all other printed material.

Papers include:

James Davis, Queen's University Belfast, 'John Gough: Heretical Bookseller in Henrician England'

James Wallace, McGill University, 'Cramers, Chapmen and Running Stationers: Popular Print Distribution in Eighteenth-Century Scotland'

Andrew Hobbs, University of Central Lancashire, 'Auctioning Secondhand Newspapers and Periodicals in News Rooms and Reading Rooms, 1851-1900'

Nicola Wilson, University of Reading, ‘Boots and the Novel: The Circulating Libraries and their Readers, c. 1900-40’

Duygu Tekgul, University of Exeter, 'Translated Fiction as a Product Category in Contemporary British Book Market'

For further information and registration forms, please see the workshop web-page, at: http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/books.html

or contact :

Dr Laura Ugolini

E-mail:  L.Ugolini@wlv.ac.uk

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

 

Dr Laura Ugolini

Reader in History

 

School of Law, Social Sciences and Communications

MC Building

University of Wolverhampton

Wolverhampton

WV1 1LY

E-mail: l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk