BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Bookselling Research Network - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Bookselling Research Network
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://booksellingresearchnet.uk
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Bookselling Research Network
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:Europe/London
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:BST
DTSTART:20250330T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20251026T010000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:BST
DTSTART:20260329T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20261025T010000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:BST
DTSTART:20270328T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20271031T010000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260619T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260619T150000
DTSTAMP:20260525T235234
CREATED:20260115T114318Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260510T165002Z
UID:3066-1781877600-1781881200@booksellingresearchnet.uk
SUMMARY:The British Book Trade and the Book War of 1906
DESCRIPTION:With Dr Maria Vassilopoulos (University of Wales Press) \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.  \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/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260909T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260911T130000
DTSTAMP:20260525T235234
CREATED:20250930T160435Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260506T150911Z
UID:2826-1788973200-1789131600@booksellingresearchnet.uk
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/
CATEGORIES:Conference
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://booksellingresearchnet.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/76901_DS2007_405_002-Bangor-University-Library-scaled.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261125T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261125T153000
DTSTAMP:20260525T235234
CREATED:20260417T132625Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260428T085739Z
UID:3236-1795615200-1795620600@booksellingresearchnet.uk
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
URL:https://booksellingresearchnet.uk/event/ajwestnov2026/
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://booksellingresearchnet.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/HowQueerBookshopsChangedtheWorld_HB_Cover-1-1-scaled.jpg
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR