Brands, intellectual property, business history.
'A mark of distinction: branding and trade mark law in the UK from the 1860s', Business History (2010).
'Reading registrations: a comparative view of one hundred years of trademark registration data in France, the United States, and the United Kingdom', in Lopes & Duguid (eds), Trademarks, Brands, and Competitiveness (London: Routledge: 2010).
'Shifting patterns in marks and registration: France, the US, and the UK, 1870-1970', QMUL Centre for Globalisation Research Working Papers (2008).
Political marketing in the suffrage campaigns.
'Shopping for suffrage: the campaign shops of the Women's Social and Political Union', Women's History Review (2009).
'Writing and re-writing suffrage history: Sylvia Pankhurst's The Suffragette', Women's History Magazine (2007). Download e-print at SSRN.
'Media and militancy: propaganda in the Women's Social and Political Union's campaign', Women's History Review (2005).
'Making the news: Votes for Women and the mainstream press', Media History (2004).
'Commercial places, public spaces: suffragette shops and the public sphere', University of Sussex Journal of Contemporary History (2004).
Book reviews.
Freedom From Advertising: E.W. Scripps's Chicago experiment by Duane C.S. Stoltzfus, Business History (2008).
Nylon and Bombs: DuPont and the march of modern America by Pap A. Ndiaye, Business History (2008).
The Militant Suffrage Movement: citizenship and resistance in Britain, 1860-1930 by Laura E. Nym Mayhall, Women's History Review (2005).
PhD thesis.
Buying Votes: purchasable propaganda in the twentieth-century women's suffrage movement (2005). Details at Open Library.
Dr John Mercer PhD
Page last updated February 2010.