The future of the Baskerville Bible owned by Birmingham inventor and industrialist Matthew Boulton has been secured, and it will now be housed in the Cadbury Research Library at the University of Birmingham, alongside the University’s many other Baskerville holdings. The lives of Matthew Boulton and the printer John Baskerville were intertwined both commercially and […]
Print Futures Awards 2020 Applications now open
April 18, 2020
The Printing Charity’s annual Print Futures Awards support people aged 18–30, who are starting out or already working in the print, paper, publishing, packaging, and graphic arts sector. You can find out more and apply on the Printing Charity’s website. The deadline for submissions is 26 April 2020.
St Brides opening in March
February 23, 2020
St Bride’s Library will be open on Wednesday 4 March and Wednesday 18 March 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 at […]
Exhibition on printing in London
February 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 […]
St Brides Opening in February
January 28, 2020
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 at […]
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. […]
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 […]
St Brides opening in January
December 28, 2019
St Bride’s Library will be open on Wednesday 15 January and Wednesday 22 January 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 at […]
Residential letterpress and bookbinding courses
December 12, 2019
The Grange, near Ellesmere in Shropshire, offers a range of residential courses that follow the creation of a traditional book right through from printing to finished illustrated book — letterpress printing courses, bookbinding courses, and paper marbling courses. For details of the courses running in 2020, and how to book, see their website.
Talk on map printing by prisoners of war
November 24, 2019
Mark Evans and Ken Burnley are talking about The Brunswick Prison Camp Map Printers at St Bride’s Institute in London on 3 December 2019. They will describe how a clandestine press was made and run in a German prisoner of war camp (Oflag-79) in order to produce escape maps, towards the end of the second […]
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