BRN26: Finding the Conference at Bangor University
The BRN26 Conference is being held in the Music Building at Bangor University. You can use the Google Map below to find directions. It is a 10 minute walk from the Bangor train station (see map below).
BRN26 Conference Schedule
9 Dydd Mercher / Wednesday 14.30: Registration (coffee, tea, water) 15.00: Welcome 15:15: Keynote 1 – Will Smith & Polly Atkins of Sam Read Bookseller, Grasmere 16.15: Panel 1 – The Printing House as Bookshop: Printer-Bookseller Firms Across Eras 17.15 Reception...
BRN26: Travelling to Bangor in the UK
Flying to the UK The most convenient airports from which to reach Bangor are Manchester Airport and Liverpool Airport. Manchester is slightly easier as the train to Bangor departs directly from the Airport. Arriving at Liverpool, you will need to take...
BRN26: Local Info About Bangor
Where to stay, places to eat, and things to do while at Bangor.
BRN26: Registration
Use this guide to help plan your trip to Bangor. Click to download this guide Click to download this trip guide Come back to this page for more updates on the BRN 2026 Bookselling Conference!
BRN Bookselling Conference 2026: Spaces of Bookselling
“For such a space entails the unexpected. The specifically spatial within time-space is produced by that—sometimes happenstance, sometimes not—arrangement-in-relation-to-each-other that results from the multiplicity of trajectories. In spatial configurations, otherwise unconnected narratives may be brought into contact, or previously connected ones may be wrenched apart. There is always an element of ‘chaos.’ This is the chance of space.”
CFP: BRN Conference 2026: Spaces of Bookselling
Bangor University | 9–11 September 2026In association with the Stephen Colclough Centre for the History and Culture of the Book “For such a space entails the unexpected. The specifically spatial within time-space is produced by that—sometimes happenstance, sometimes not—arrangement-in-relation-to-each-other that results...
