St Bride’s Library will be open on Wednesday 5 February and Wednesday 19 February from 12 noon – 8pm. Email in advance (library@sbf.org.uk) to let the library know that you intend to visit as space in the Reading Room is limited. Check the online catalogue and email a list of titles you wish to see […]
Archives for January 2020
Print Networks Call for Papers
January 22, 2020
The 2020 Print Networks / CPHC Conference will take place in Appleby-in-Westmoreland, on the edge of Wainwright’s Lakeland Fells and will take as its theme ‘printing for tourists’ — tickets, notices, leaflets, labels, folders, billheads and other throwaways, alongside books both physical and virtual, that have come to represent tourists and tourism across the ages. […]
Exhibition on printing in London
January 15, 2020
An exhibition on the history of east London’s print industry opens at the Nunnery Gallery in Bow Road, London E3 on 17 January 2020. It will include historic photographs and printed items as well as print workers’ memories, told through a new collection of oral histories. Using archive and newly found material from companies, co-ops […]
Film about Baskerville’s work
January 12, 2020
A short film about Baskerville’s punches will be screened for the first time at Winterbourne House in Birmingham on 12 February. It demonstrates Baskerville’s working methods and provides insights into his craftsmanship. The evening will also include talks about the wider project. The event is free, but booking is essential: see the Centre for Printing […]
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