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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\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaria Vassilopoulos has worked as a bookseller\, for The Bookseller magazine and in publishing sales for her whole career\, spanning over twenty years. She currently works for University of Wales Press as Global Sales Manager and Head of Sales and Marketing. \n\n\n\nVassilopoulos has a PhD from UCL in Book Trade History and is currently writing a short monograph about the Book War to be published by CUP. She is also author of of An Evening with the Book Society and archivist for them and the Society of Young Publishers. She is a trustee of the Book Trade Charity.   \n\n\n\nThe British Book Trade and the Book War of 1906: Vassilopoulos will reminisce about the first time she encountered an event called the ‘Book War’ in 2015\, when she was working on the eventual topic of her PhD thesis. Her discovery of this microhistory enabled her to conduct archival research and media analysis to tell a fuller story of the dispute between the Publishers’ Association and The Times Book Club. There will be an explanation of this so-called war and its relation to the Net Book Agreement of 1900\, followed by Vassilopoulos’s findings from her research\, which she believes cement it as an event that matters to the scholarly record of book trade history and\, most importantly\, the Net Book Agreement. 
URL:https://booksellingresearchnet.uk/event/vassilopoulos2026/
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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:The Bookshop with Professor Andrew Pettegree
DESCRIPTION:The Bookshop explores the evolution of bookselling from the cramped collectors’ shops frequented by Samuel Pepys to the radical feminist bookshops of the 70s\, the rise of monolithic chains and the new world of online selling. Connecting stories and lives that span centuries\, countries and continents\, The Bookshop brings us into beloved bookshops of today and looks forward to the possible experience of booksellers of tomorrow. \n\n\n\nWe are delighted to welcome Professor Andrew Pettegree to the BRN\, when he will be talking about his latest book\, The Bookshop.  \n\n\n\nAndrew Pettegree is a professor of modern history at the University of St. Andrews\, where he was the founding director of the St. Andrews Reformation Studies Institute. He currently serves as the vice president of the Royal Historical Society. His previous books include The Invention of News\, The Book in the Renaissance\, which was a New York Times Notable Book of 2010\, and Emden and the Dutch Revolt. He lives in Fife\, Scotland.  \n\n\n\nAll welcome!  \n\n\n\nZoom link to join:  https://ucl.zoom.us/j/96270179449?pwd=ykZjw9zBY2d6ZO8lD76GFQ0hv4lFjV.1 \n\n\n\nMeeting ID: 962 7017 9449Passcode: 448543
URL:https://booksellingresearchnet.uk/event/the-bookshop-with-professor-andrew-pettegree/
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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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPasscode: 610720
URL:https://booksellingresearchnet.uk/event/ajwestnov2026/
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SUMMARY:Preferring paper to pixels: Book dealing before and after the digital revolution
DESCRIPTION:Join Zoom Meeting https://ucl.zoom.us/j/94484903791?pwd=b839I1q2ZWDviaYzY9blrfNJQHuaU2.1Meeting ID: 944 8490 3791 Passcode: 380900 \n\n\n\n\n\nBill Rees will talk about the vast changes in the second hand book world. It will be a kind of lament\, which you may infer from the title. \n\n\n\nBill Rees is a Welsh writer\, bookseller and former journalist best known for The Loneliness of the Long Distance Book Runner (2011)\, a memoir of life in the second-hand and antiquarian book trade. Rees worked as a newspaper reporter in London before exchanging journalism for a more unconventional career centred on books\, travel and independent bookselling. His memoir draws on experiences in Wales\, France and beyond\, recounting the thrill of discovering rare editions\, running bookshops\, and meeting writers and fellow book collectors. Living between Bangor\, North Wales\, and the south of France\, Rees has combined bookselling with a variety of other occupations\, including translating French football commentary for a Dutch bookmaker
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SUMMARY:How to Write a Love Letter: Pocket Manuals and Delhi’s Grammar of Desire with Kanupriya Dhingra
DESCRIPTION:Join Zoom Meeting https://ucl.zoom.us/j/96162693226?pwd=NZanduWmMmtJkMPHwOHFjZBmlkVIXf.1 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFound on book stalls at railway stations\, bus stops\, and in Delhi’s book bazaars\, these contemporary\, ‘cheap’ love letter writing manuals in Hindi and English reiterate the need to write love. Their text and texture resonate with the materiality of their publishing and circulation. Like any other self-help pocketbook\, they present an overambitious range of quirky sample letters as a pedagogical tool for a fundamental and indispensable life skill; in this case\, the simultaneously private and public act of expressing love in the language and situation of your preference. These conduct books are cautious in teaching how to write a love letter to that someone special––your brother-in-law\, your next-door neighbour\, your secretary\, your boss\, or your boss’s daughter––who reciprocates your love. The spontaneity\, which according to the manuals is obvious and urgent\, is often restricted\, and adherence to these manuals is strongly recommended! These ephemeral manuals exist in chorus with other everyday performances of love in the city and are essential to understanding Delhi’s lovescape. They also include various repertoires of love that have survived across temporal and transnational boundaries––Perso-Urdu ghazal and shayari\, the poetry of Donne and Shakespeare\, or popular Bollywood songs––now available all at once\, at your disposal for easy access and easy entertainment. \n\n\n\nIn this talk\, I will place these manuals in a longer history of writing love in South Asia and explore how they become a repertoire of love––one that has evolved out of a hyperlocal as well as a universal cultural history of love\, shaped by the region’s distinct print cultures. Yet what makes them unique is their pedagogy: love here is not merely expressed but taught\, drafted and rehearsed from a template. This insistence on instruction\, I argue\, makes these manuals Delhi’s grammar of desire. \n\n\n\nDr. Kanupriya Dhingra is an Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean at the Jindal School of Languages and Literature\, Jindal Global University. She is also a Board of Directors member at the Society for the History of Authorship\, Reading\, and Publishing (SHARP). She researches on the History of the Book and Print Cultures\, with a focus on Delhi (India). She earned her doctorate under the Felix Scholarship Fund from SOAS\, University of London in 2021 on her dissertation titled ‘Daryaganj’s Parallel Book History’\, which she is currently revising into a monograph. Her doctoral research is based on oral interviews and rhythmanalysis conducted in Old Delhi. Supported by the SOAS Fieldwork Grant\, Kanupriya interviewed more than 200 booksellers and several shauqeen book buyers of Daryaganj.
URL:https://booksellingresearchnet.uk/event/how-to-write-a-love-letter-pocket-manuals-and-delhis-grammar-of-desire-with-kanupriya-dhingra/
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