10.30 - 11.00 The National Trust and Waddesdon Manor (The Rothschild Collection) Annual Conference

 

All That Glitters: Shops and Shopping in 18th C France and England

 

Tuesday 13th May

At The Dairy, Waddesdon Manor

 Programme

10.30 - 11.00	Registration and Coffee
11.00 - 11.10	Welcome and Introduction – Pippa Shirley, (Head of Collections, Waddesdon Manor)
11.10 - 11.40	Phillippa Plock and Philippa Hubbard (Waddesdon Manor and University of Warwick): Shop Interiors in 18th-century French and British Trade Cards
11.40 - 12.10	Selma Schwartz (Waddesdon Manor): ‘French Marchands Merciers in the 18th Century’
12.10 - 12.30	Questions and Discussion
12.30 – 2.00	Lunch
2.00 – 2.30	Claire Walsh (independent scholar): ‘The Skills of Shopping in Eighteenth Century England’
2.30 – 3.00	Karin Dannehl and Nancy Cox (University of Wolverhampton): ‘“Retale”, Small Luxuries and Buyers of the Middling Sort in Eighteenth-Century England’
3.00 – 3.20	Questions and Discussions
3.20 – 3.45	Tea
3.45 – 5.00	Tour of the House and Exhibitions, including ‘All That Glitters’: Shopping and Advertising in 18th-century Paris, and “Makers of Nothing, Sellers of Everything: The Marchand Merciers”.
5.00 – 6.00	Wine Reception.