CHORD: The Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution; Univ. of Wolverhampton (Web)
The CHORD is organising a series of online seminars on the topics Shopping History, Fashion History, and Gender History. Participation is free, but registration is required. For further information, including programme, abstracts and registration form see the website (Web) or e-mail Laura Ugolini at l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk
Programme
27.02.2023 (the timings are UK times)
- 14.00: Emily Westkaemper (James Madison Univ., US): From Consumer to Career Woman: Promoting Professionalism in U.S. Department Stores, 1950s–1980s
- 14.40: Nataliia Laas (New York Univ., US): Urban Stores as Places of Women’s Activism in the Soviet Union during Late Stalinism
- 15.20: Lesley Taylor (Solent Univ., UK): St. Mags: Fashion at the heart of the community
27.03.2023
- 10.00: Phil Lyon (Umeå Univ., Swe): Promoting French Cuisine to English Homes: The Life and Times of a 1923 Cookery Book
- 10.40: Jane Tolerton (indep. scholar, New Zealand): Mary Taylor: ‚Friend of Charlotte Bronte‘ or successful storekeeper of colonial New Zealand – and ‚her own best friend‘?
- 11.20: Frances Richardson (Univ. of Oxford, UK): Shopping in early nineteenth-century Wales: the variety of shops and their customers
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