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Article

• Stobart, J. (2011) Gentlemen and shopkeepers: supplying the country house in eighteenth-century England. Economic History Review. 64(3), pp. 885-904. 0013-0117.
• Stobart, J. (2011) Achat pour les épiceries exotiques en mi-18ème-siècle Angleterre. Histoire Urbane. 30, pp. 127-146. 1628-0482.
• Stobart, J. and Schwarz, L. (2008) Leisure, luxury and urban specialization in the eighteenth century. Urban History. 35(2), pp. 216-236. 0963-9268.
• Stobart, J. (2008) Manchester and its region: networks and boundaries in the eighteenth century. Manchester Region History Review. 19, pp. 66-80. 0952-4320.
• Stobart, J. (2008) Selling (through) politeness: advertising provincial shops in eighteenth-century England. Cultural and Social History. 5(2), pp. 309-328. 1478-0038.
• Stobart, J. (2007) Food retailers and rural communities: Cheshire butchers in the long eighteenth century. Local Population Studies. 79, pp. 23-37. 0143-2974.
• 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.
• 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

• Stobart, J. (2014) Luxury and country house sales in England, c.1760-1830. In: Fennetaux, A., Junqua, A. and Vasset, S. (eds.) The Afterlife of Used Things: Recycling in the Long Eighteenth Century. London: Routledge. pp. 25-36.
• Stobart, J. (2014) Taste and textiles: selling fashion in eighteenth-century provincial England. In: Stobart, J. and Blonde, B. (eds.) Selling Textiles in the Long Eighteenth Century: Comparative Perspectives from Western Europe. Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan. pp. 160-178.
• Stobart, J. (2014) The shopping streets of provincial England, 1650-1840. In: Furnee, J. H. and Lesger, C. (eds.) The Landscape of Consumption: Shopping Streets and Cultures in Western Europe, 1600-1900. Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan. pp. 16-36.
• Stobart, J. (2013) An empire of goods? Groceries in eighteenth-century England. In: Umemura, M. and Fujioka, R. (eds.) Comparative Responses to Globalization: Experiences of British and Japanese Enterprises. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 23-44.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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

• Stobart, J. and Blonde, B., (eds.) (2014) Selling Textiles in the Long Eighteenth Century: Comparative Perspectives from Western Europe. Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan. 9781137295200.
• Stobart, J. (2013) Sugar and Spice: Grocers and Groceries in Provincial England, 1650-1830. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 9780199577927.
• 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.
• 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.
• Stobart, J. (2008) Spend, Spend, Spend! A History of Shopping. Stroud: History Press. 9780752443690.
• Stobart, J., Hann, A. and Morgan, V. (2007) Spaces of Consumption: Leisure and Shopping in the English Town, c.1680-1830. London: Routledge. 9780415424561.
• Stobart, J. (2004) The First Industrial Region: North-West England, c.1700-60. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 0719064627.

Conference or Workshop Item

• Stobart, J. (2014) Town or country? Seasonal mobility and the country house. Paper presented to: Travel and the Country House: Places, Cultures and Practices, The University of Northampton, 15-16 September 2014. (Unpublished)
• Stobart, J. (2014) Making space in the country house: practice, performance and plans. Invited Presentation presented to: Practices and Performances: Between Materiality and Morality in Pre-Modernity, Sigtunastiftelsen, Sweden, 21-23 August 2014. (Unpublished)
• Stobart, J. (2014) A very English affair? Furnishing the Hanoverian English country house. Panel Presentation presented to: European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) 2014, University of Vienna, 23-26 April 2014. (Unpublished)
• Stobart, J. and Blonde, B. (2014) The language of value: a comparative approach to newspaper advertisements for auctions of second-hand household goods in eighteenth-century England and the Low Countries. Paper presented to: Newspapers and Transculturality: New Approaches to Working with Historical Newspapers, University of Heidelberg, Germany, 30 January-01 February 2014. (Unpublished)
• Stobart, J. (2013) Lost aspects of the country house. Invited Presentation presented to: Lost Mansions and Country Estates, University of Essex, 13 July 2013. (Unpublished)
• Stobart, J. (2013) Fashion, heritance and lifecourse: consumption in the Georgian country house. Keynote presented to: 2nd Early Modern Studies Workshop, University of Uppsala, Sweden, 27-28 May 2013. (Unpublished)
• Stobart, J. (2013) An empire of goods? Groceries in eighteenth-century England. Paper presented to: Economic History Society Annual Conference, University of York, 05-07 April 2013. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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.
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)
• 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. (Unpublished)

Conference Proceedings

• Thomson, R., Antunes, A. P. M., Stobart, J. and Covington, A. D. (2011) The role of leather science and technology in heritage conservation. In: XXXI IULTCS Congress: Valencia, Spain, September 27th-30th 2011. Valencia, Spain: IULTCS.

Honorary role

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