his paper presents exploratory notes from my ongoing research project, which focuses on occult and New Age spirituality bookshops in Britain and aims to illuminate their function as hubs and arenas for the transference of knowledge and information within these respective milieus, c. 1893 - c.1993.

Convenience and the saving of time is one of the attractions of buying books online, particularly on Amazon, which advertises rapid delivery speeds at very low prices. Algorithms are designed to save time, making a database of books easily searchable, but...

Hidden Behind the Bookshelves Join Prof Samantha Rayner to discuss her recently published Cambridge Element, Women Booksellers in the Twentieth Century. The British women booksellers who built and ran successful businesses before, during, and after the Second World War have largely...

Mark Thornton, Senior Partnerships Manager for the UK side of Bookshop.org will be talking to us about the way this online platform is trying to support physical indie bookshops, and some of the connected bookish initiatives the B-Corp company has initiated.

Bookselling seems to be an innate profession, after all we learn to read at school and to be a bookseller you have to love reading, don't you? Across Europe, a number of bookselling schools, whether public or private, apprenticeship or university-based, for initial or continuing training, provide high-quality training for future booksellers, department managers or company directors. What do they teach and how do they train the booksellers of tomorrow?

Radical Bookselling History Project: Dave Cope, John Goodman, Rick Seccombe, Maggie Walker From the early 1970s, there was a rapid expansion in the number of radical bookshops in the UK, with at least one in many large (and some small) towns...