Article

1. Rothery, M. and Stobart, J. (2012) Inheritance events and spending patterns in the English country house: the Leigh family of Stoneleigh Abbey, 1738-1806. Continuity and Change. 27(3), pp. 379-407. 0268-4160.
2. Rothery, M. and Stobart, J. (2012) Merger and crisis: Sir John Turner Dryden and Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire, in the late eighteenth century. Northamptonshire Past and Present. 65, pp. 19-30. 0140-9131.
3. Stobart, J. (2011) Gentlemen and shopkeepers: supplying the country house in eighteenth-century England. Economic History Review. 64(3), pp. 885-904. 0013-0117.
4. Stobart, J. (2011) Who were the urban gentry? Social elites in an English provincial town, c.1680-1760. Continuity and Change. 26(1), pp. 89-112. 0268-4160.
5. Stobart, J. (2011) Achat pour les épiceries exotiques en mi-18ème-siècle Angleterre. Histoire Urbane. 30, pp. 127-146. 1628-0482.
6. Stobart, J. (2011) The language of luxury goods: consumption and the English country house, c.1760-1830. Virtus: Yearbook of the History of the Nobility. 18, pp. 89-104. 9789490011000.
7. Stobart, J. (2010) A history of shopping: the missing link between retail and consumer revolutions. Journal of Historical Research in Marketing. 2(3), pp. 342-349. 1755-750X.
8. Stobart, J. and Schwarz, L. (2008) Leisure, luxury and urban specialization in the eighteenth century. Urban History. 35(2), pp. 216-236. 0963-9268.
9. Stobart, J. (2008) Manchester and its region: networks and boundaries in the eighteenth century. Manchester Region History Review. 19, pp. 66-80. 0952-4320.
10. Stobart, J. (2008) Selling (through) politeness: advertising provincial shops in eighteenth-century England. Cultural and Social History. 5(2), pp. 309-328. 1478-0038.
11. Stobart, J. (2007) Food retailers and rural communities: Cheshire butchers in the long eighteenth century. Local Population Studies. 79, pp. 23-37. 0143-2974.
12. Stobart, J. (2004) Building an urban identity. Cultural space and civic boosterism in a 'new' industrial town: Burslem, 1761-1911. Social History. 29(4), pp. 485-498. 1470-1200.
13. Stobart, J. (2004) The economic and social worlds of rural craftsmen-retailers in eighteenth century Cheshire. Agricultural History Review. 52(2), pp. 141-160. 0002-1490.

Book Section

1. Russel, B., Stobart, J. and Kakabadse, N. K. (2012) Urban elites in eighteenth-century Northampton. In: Kakabadse, A. P. and Kakabadse, N. K. (eds.) Global Elites: The Opaque Nature of Transnational Policy Determination. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 262-285.
2. MacArthur, R. and Stobart, J. (2010) Going for a song? Country house sales in Georgian England. In: Stobart, J. and Van Damme, I. (eds.) Modernity and the Second-Hand Trade : European Consumption Cultures and Practices, 1700-1900. Basingstoke: Palgrave. pp. 175-195.
3. Stobart, J. (2009) A settled little society: networks, friendship and trust in eighteenth-century provincial England. In: Baigent, E. and Mayhew, R. (eds.) English Geographies 1600-1950: Historical Essays on English Customs, Cultures, and Communities in Honour of Jack Langton. Oxford, England: St John's College Research Centre. pp. 58-70.
4. Stobart, J. (2009) In and out of fashion? Advertising novel and second-hand goods in Georgian England. In: Blonde, B., Coquery, N., Stobart, J. and Van Damme, I. (eds.) Fashioning Old and New: Changing Consumer Patterns in Western Europe (1650 - 1900). Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols. pp. 133-144.
5. Stobart, J. (2007) Rus et Urbe? The hinterland and landscape of Georgian Chester. In: Barnwell, P. S. and Palmer, M. (eds.) Post-Medieval Landscapes. Macclesfield: Windgather Press. pp. 107-118.

Book

1. Stobart, J. (2013) Sugar and Spice: Grocers and Groceries in Provincial England, 1650-1830. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 9780199577927.
2. Stobart, J. and Van Damme, I., (eds.) (2010) Modernity and the Second-Hand Trade : European Consumption Cultures and Practices, 1700-1900. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave. 9780230229464.
3. Blonde, B., Coquery, N., Stobart, J. and Van Damme, I., (eds.) (2009) Fashioning Old and New: Changing Consumer Patterns in Europe (Seventeenth-Nineteenth Centuries). Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols. 9782503528786.
4. Stobart, J. (2008) Spend, Spend, Spend! A History of Shopping. Stroud: History Press. 9780752443690.
5. Stobart, J., Hann, A. and Morgan, V. (2007) Spaces of Consumption: Leisure and Shopping in the English Town, c.1680-1830. London: Routledge. 9780415424561.
6. Stobart, J. (2004) The First Industrial Region: North-West England, c.1700-60. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 0719064627.

Conference or Workshop Item

1. Stobart, J. (2013) Rich, female and single: the changing consumption practices of Mary Leigh, 1736-1806. Paper presented to: Singles in the Cities of North-West Europe, c.1000-2000, University of Antwerp, 06-08 March 2013.
2. Stobart, J. (2012) The luxury of learning: books, knowledge and display in the English country house, c.1730-1800. Paper presented to: Le Commerce du Luxe - Le Luxe du Commerce, University of Lyon, France, 21-23 November 2012.
3. Stobart, J. (2012) Buying books: networks, knowledge and the Georgian country house. Paper presented to: Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution Conference (CHORD) 2012, University of Wolverhampton, 05-06 September 2012.
4. Stobart, J. and Rothery, M. (2012) Men, women and the supply of luxury goods in eighteenth-century England: the purchasing patterns of Edward and Mary Leigh. Paper presented to: European Association for Urban History (EAUH) 11th International Conference: Cities & Societies in Comparative Perspective, Charles University, Prague, 29 August - 01 September 2012.
5. Stobart, J. (2012) ‘Rare and curious’ or ‘genuine and fashionable’? The material culture of the elite and middle classes, c.1760-1840. Paper presented to: European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) 2012, University of Glasgow, 11-14 April 2012.
6. Rothery, M. and Stobart, J. (2012) Geographies of supply: Stoneleigh Abbey and Arbury Hall in the eighteenth century. Paper presented to: Consuming the Country House, The University of Northampton, 18-19 April 2012.
7. Stobart, J. (2011) Elite consumption in eighteenth-century England: fashion, status and personal preference. Invited Keynote presented to: Consumption and Standards of Living Since the Eighteenth Century: Economic History, Social History, Cultural History, University of Huddersfield, 13 September 2011.
8. Stobart, J. (2011) Novelty, luxury and the consumption of groceries in eighteenth-century England. Paper presented to: Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution (CHORD) Conference: Food and Beverages: Retailing Distribution and Consumption in Historical Perspective, University of Wolverhampton, 07-08 September 2011.
9. Stobart, J. and Rothery, M. (2011) Rearranging the furniture: fashion, status and personal preference at Stoneleigh Abbey, c.1730-1800. Invited Presentation presented to: Design History Society (DHS) Seminar: Country Houses Then and Now: Formation Patronage and Interpretation, University of Wolverhampton, 06 June 2011.
10. Stobart, J. (2011) Luxury and country house sales in England, 1750-1830. Paper presented to: Economic History Society Annual Conference, Robinson College, University of Cambridge, 01-03 April 2011.
11. Stobart, J. (2010) Textiles and the second-hand trade in the long eighteenth century. Invited Keynote presented to: Textile Society AGM and Conference: RE: wind - Recycling and Sustainability, De Montfort University, Leicester, 26-28 November 2010.
12. Stobart, J. (2010) Taste and textiles: selling fashion in eighteenth-century provincial England. Paper presented to: Pasold Research Fund and the Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution (CHORD) Conference: Distribution Networks for Textiles and Dress, C.1700-1945, Wolverhampton, 08-09 September 2010.
13. Stobart, J. (2010) Luxury and country house sales in England c.1750-1830. Paper presented to: Recycling Luxury and Waste in the Long 18th Century: the Afterlife of Used Things in Britain and France, Paris, France, 22-23 June 2010.
14. Stobart, J. (2010) Tea and cakes: elite consumption of groceries in eighteenth-century England. Paper presented to: European Social Science History (ESSHC) Conference, Ghent, Belgium, 12-16 April 2010.
15. Stobart, J. (2010) Selling spaces: grocers' shops in eighteenth-century England. Panel Presentation presented to: British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) Annual Conference, Oxford, 5-7 January 2010.
16. Stobart, J. (2009) The shopping streets of provincial England c. 1650-1850. Paper presented to: The Landscape of Consumption: Shopping Streets in European Cities, c.1500-1914, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 22-23 October 2009.
17. Stobart, J. (2009) Sociability, space and the shopkeeper in eighteenth-century England. Paper presented to: Visiting Rites: Accessing the English Home, c.1650-1850, University of Northampton, England, 10-11 September 2009.
18. Stobart, J. (2009) A history of shopping: the missing link between retail and consumer revolutions. Paper presented to: 2009 Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution (CHORD) Conference: Retailing and Distribution History, University of Wolverhampton, England, 9-10 September 2009.
19. Stobart, J. (2009) Shop and home: the material culture of selling in eighteenth-century provincial England. Paper presented to: Local History in Britain after Hoskins, University of Leicester, England, 9-12 July 2009.
20. Stobart, J. (2009) Geographies of selling: the grocery trades in Georgian provincial towns. Paper presented to: Annual Conference of the Association of Business Historians: 'Cities of Business, the Business of Cities...', University of Liverpool, England, 3-4 July 2009.
21. Stobart, J. (2009) Taste and textiles: selling fashion in eighteenth-century provincial England. Paper presented to: Selling Textiles in the Long Eighteenth Century: Comparative Perspectives from Western Europe, University of Northampton, England, 10-11 June 2009.
22. Stobart, J. (2009) Men of substance? Defining the status of shopkeepers in 17th and 18th century England. Paper presented to: Social Cohesion in Pre-Modern England, 1500-1800, Lincoln College, Oxford, England, 2 May 2009.
23. Stobart, J. (2009) Exotic or everyday? Advertising groceries in Georgian England. Paper presented to: Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution (CHORD) Workshop - Retailing History: Texts and Images, University of Wolverhampton, England, 29 April 2009.
24. Stobart, J. (2009) Making the town: William West's walking tours. Paper presented to: Social History Society Annual Conference, University of Warwick, England, 3-5 April 2009.
25. Stobart, J. (2008) Making the high street: William West's walking tours of Birmingham, 1830. Panel Presentation presented to: Centre for History of Retailing and Distribution (CHORD) Conference: Clone towns? The High Street in Historical Perspective, Telford, 10-11 September 2008.
26. Stobart, J. (2008) Accommodating the shop: the commercial use of domestic space in English provincial towns. Panel Presentation presented to: European Association for Urban History Conference, Lyon, France, 27-30 August 2008.
27. Stobart, J., Blonde, B. and Coquery, N. (2008) Cosmopolitanism and the city: urban production and consumption 1600-1800. Paper presented to: IXth International Conference on Urban History, Lyon, France, 27-30 August 2008.
28. Stobart, J. (2008) Sugar and spice: shopping for exotic goods in mid-eighteenth-century England. Panel Presentation presented to: European Association for Urban History Conference, Lyon, France, 27-30 August 2008.
29. Stobart, J. (2008) The provincial pleasure gardens of Georgian England. Invited Presentation presented to: Vauxhall Revisited: Pleasure Gardens and Their Publics, 1660-1880, Tate Britain, London, 14-16 July 2008.
30. Stobart, J. (2008) A settled little society?: networks, friendship and trust in eighteenth-century provincial England. Invited Keynote presented to: Sixth Gustav Wasa Seminar, Jyvaskyla, Finland, 6-7 June 2008.
31. Stobart, J. (2008) Gentlemen and shopkeepers: supplying the country house in eighteenth century England. Panel Presentation presented to: Economic History Conference, Nottingham, 28-30 March 2008.
32. Stobart, J. and Van Damme, I. (2008) Second-hand circuits of exchange in Europe, 1650-1850. Chair presented to: 7th European Social Science History Conference (ESSCH), Lisbon, Portugal, 26 February - 1 March 2008.
33. Stobart, J. (2008) The country house, c.1700-1850: materiality, power and patronage. Chair presented to: 7th European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC), Lisbon, Portugal, 26 February - 1 March 2008.
34. Stobart, J. (2008) The shop and the home: retail space in early eighteenth-century English provincial towns. Panel Presentation presented to: British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, Oxford, 8-10 January 2008.
35. Stobart, J. (2007) In and out of fashion? Advertising novel and second-hand goods in Georgian England. Panel Presentation presented to: 2007 Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution (CHORD) and Association of Business Historians (ABH) Conference: Business Links: Trade Distribution and Networks, University of Wolverhampton, 29-30 June 2007.
36. Stobart, J. (2007) Selling (through) politeness: advertising provincial shops in the eighteenth century. Panel Presentation presented to: Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution (CHORD) Workshop, Wolverhampton, 21 March 2007.
37. Stobart, J. (2007) Accommodating the shop: the use of domestic space for selling in English provincial towns, 1660-1740. Panel Presentation presented to: Social History Society Annual Conference, Exeter, 30 March - 1 April 2007.
38. Stobart, J. and Van Damme, I. (2007) The shop and the street: selling consumer goods in England and the Southern Netherlands c.1650-1750. Panel Presentation presented to: Urban Living: Society, Culture and Politics in the English Town, 1700-1850, Northampton, 5-6 July 2007.

Conference Proceedings

1. Thomson, R., Antunes, A. P. M., Stobart, J. and Covington, A. D. (2011) The role of leather science and technology in heritage conservation. Paper presented to: XXXI International Union of Leather Technologists and Chemists Societies (IULTCS) Congress, Valencia, Spain, 27-30 September 2011. Valencia, Spain: IULTCS.

Honorary role

1. Stobart, J. (2008) Member of Editorial Board. International Journal of Regional and Local Studies. Lincoln: University of Lincoln. 1750-0478.
2. Stobart, J. (2008) Member of Editorial Board. Journal of Urban History. Thousand Oaks, California and London: SAGE Publications. 0096-1442.
3. Stobart, J. (2008) Member of Editorial Board. Local Population Studies. Hatfield: Local Population Studies Society. 0143-2974.