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SUMMARY:BA Bookshop Mentoring Scheme with Creative Access
DESCRIPTION:Throughout 2025\, the Booksellers Association (BA) collaborated with Creative Access to deliver a mentoring programme designed to support young people seeking to enter—or advance within—the bookselling profession. Fifteen mentees\, selected by Creative Access from communities historically under‑represented in the book trade\, were paired with experienced bookseller mentors identified by the BA. In her presentation\, Kate Gunning\, Head of Membership Development at the BA\, will discuss the origins of the initiative and provide an overview of its implementation and outcomes. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKate Gunning\, Head of Membership Development at the Booksellers Association\, is a seasoned bookselling and publishing professional with extensive experience across retail management\, buying\, and member services. Joining the Booksellers Association in 2022 as Acting Membership Manager\, she now supervises all membership processes and services and runs BA Learning\, the Association’s learning and development programme. She also runs the Children’s and Christian Bookselling Groups and the Independent Booksellers Forum. Kate previously spent 13 years at Waterstones\, managed stores in Paris and London\, served as Book Buyer at Selfridges and Head of Buying at Foyles\, and later spent 12 years as Independent Bookshops Manager at Penguin Random House.
URL:https://booksellingresearchnet.uk/event/brn-gunning26/
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SUMMARY:The British Book Trade and the Book War of 1906
DESCRIPTION:With Dr Maria Vassilopoulos (University of Wales Press) \n\n\n\nDetails and bio coming soon…. \n\n\n\nZoom link: https://ucl.zoom.us/j/98063967186?pwd=daa3MXuKqIxhi4bywijmmnuYYk0reN.1 \n\n\n\nMeeting ID: 980 6396 7186 \n\n\n\nPasscode: 294860
URL:https://booksellingresearchnet.uk/event/the-british-book-trade-and-the-book-war-of-1906/
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SUMMARY:BRN Bookselling Conference 2026: Spaces of Bookselling
DESCRIPTION:Bangor University | 9–11 September 2026In association with the Stephen Colclough Centre for the History and Culture of the Book \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“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.”— Doreen Massey\, For Space (2005)
URL:https://booksellingresearchnet.uk/event/brn26/
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SUMMARY:How Queer Bookshops Changed the World
DESCRIPTION:With A. J. West\, author of How Queer Bookshops Changed the World (Oneworld\, 2026).  \n\n\n\nA.J.West is a Sunday Times bestselling\, multi-award-winning historical fiction novelist and historian. Prior to publication he was a breakfast host on BBC television news. He appears regularly on national television and radio programmes discussing literature\, history and current affairs. His novel\, The Betrayal of Thomas True\, was an instant Sunday Times bestseller\, winning the coveted CWA Historical Dagger award\, while The Spirit Engineer won the Historical Writers Association Debut Crown. With a passion for digging up forgotten historical stories and bringing them back to life\, he spends much of his time exploring archives and visiting locations of historical interest\, not to mention touring independent bookshops. \n\n\n\nJoin via zoom: https://ucl.zoom.us/j/97453193955?pwd=UgZl8xD10aayBcJ8pA8MxQH5VVtqwO.1 \n\n\n\nMeeting ID: 974 5319 3955 \n\n\n\nPasscode: 610720
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