Bookings are now open for November's Book Trade History Conference Men and Women in the Book Trade:  Changing gender roles over 500 years Sunday 26 & Monday 27 November 2017 at Stationers’ Hall Ave Maria Lane, London EC4M 7DD This year’s annual conference on book trade history will explore ways in which gender has shaped the organization as well as the output of the trade from the early modern period to the recent past. Issues relating to the management and practice of printing and bookselling will be set alongside shifts in the patterns of demand, ownership and readership, as men and women maintained or redefined their mutual roles in business and employment, as well as in society at large.  THE SPEAKERS  Caroline Bowden  Mirjam Foot  Michael Harris  Anne Lawrence  Sara Pennell  Helen Smith  Marianne Van Remoortel  Laurence Worms  More information can be found here: http://www.aba...