Wednesday, September 7th
11.30 Registration & Lunch
12:30 Introductions and Welcome from Meryl Halls (Booksellers Association)
13.00 Panel 1 Bookshop Histories
Kristen Highland: The Monumental Bookstore
Maria Vassilopolous: The light and dark of the book trade — Christina Foyle and her bookselling years
Andrew Nash: Bookshops and Publishers’ Travellers in the mid-1930s
14:30 Tea Break
14.45 Panel 2 Books from the North: Yorkshire Bookselling in the Early Modern Period
Rachel Stenner, ‘Book Trade Life Writing: the Case of Mr Thomas Gent, Printer, of York’
Adam James Smith, ‘The Newspaper, the Bookshop and the Radical Society: Joseph Gales’ Hartshead Press and the “Reading and Thinking People of Sheffield”’
Kaley Kramer: ‘Printed by ALICE BROADE: the Career of York’s First Female Printer, 1661-1680’
16:15 Derek Addyman in conversation with Eben Muse
Thursday September 8th
9.00 Coffee and morning pastries
9.15 Panel 3 (online) International Bookselling
Noriko Asato: Japanese Immigrant Bookstores in Territorial Hawaiʻi, 1898-1941
Matthew Chambers: “Brentano’s Would Pay Hemingway!”: Selling Anglo-American Modernism in Paris
Paul Tankard: “A Musty [Literary] Extravaganza”: Dunedin’s Regent Theatre 24-hour Booksales
10:30 Coffee break
10:45 Panel 4 (online) The Cultures of Bookselling
Andrew Kamei-Dyche: Japanese Bookselling in Times of Trouble: From the Great Kantō Earthquake to the Coronavirus
Andrew Wertheimer: The Yiddish Bookstore in America
Eleanor Shevlin: The Matter of a Late 18th-Century London Bookshop, Its Proprietor, and the Trade
12:15 Lunch
12:45 Panel 5-Ideas and Influence
Gail Chester: Dissemination of radical literature in Britain since 1960 – bookshops, distributors, bookfairs
Tim White: Bookselling down Under: a report from the antipodes
13.45 Conference Close
Panels
Panel 1: Bookshop histories
- Kristen Highland: The Monumental Bookstore
- Maria Vassilopoulos: The light and dark of the book trade — Christina Foyle and her bookselling years
- Andrew Nash: Bookshops and Publishers’ Travellers in the mid-1930s
Panel 2: Books from the North: Yorkshire Bookselling in the Early Modern Period.
- Rachel Stenner, ‘Book Trade Life Writing: The Case of Mr Thomas Gent, Printer, of York’
- Adam James Smith, ‘The Newspaper, the Bookshop and the Radical Society: Joseph Gales’ Hartshead Press and the “Reading and Thinking People of Sheffield”’
- Kaley Kramer: ‘Printed by Alice Broade: the Career of York’s First Female Printer, 1661-1680’
Panel 3 (online): International Bookselling
- Noriko Asato: Japanese Immigrant Bookstores in Territorial Hawaiʻi, 1898-1941
- Matthew Chambers: “Brentano’s Would Pay Hemingway!”: Selling Anglo-American Modernism in Paris
- Paul Tankard: “A Musty [Literary] Extravaganza”: Dunedin’s Regent Theatre 24-hour Booksale
Panel 4: The Cultures of bookselling
- Andrew Kamei-Dyche: Japanese Bookselling in Times of Trouble: From the Great Kantō Earthquake to the Coronavirus
- Andrew Wertheimer: אמעריקע אין ביכער־געשעפט יידישע די The Yiddish Bookstore in America
- Eleanor Shevlin: The Matter of a Late 18th-Century London Bookshop, Its Proprietor, and the Trade (online)
Panel 5: Ideas & Influences
- Gail Chester: Dissemination of radical literature in Britain since 1960 – bookshops, distributors, bookfairs
- Tim White: Bookselling down Under: a report from the antipodes
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