Spend the day with expert staff at Robert Smail’s Printing Works for a one-day workshop in Scotland’s oldest continually operational letterpress printers. Create letterpress artwork, poster, postcard, or greetings card up to A3 size. For all levels of ability from the age of 14 up. For more details, and how to book see event website.
Typographic Surprises! online event
The latest online event in the Typographic Surprises! series takes place via Zoom on 17 February 2022 at 6.30. Tim Pye will speak about ‘Printing Remnants in the National Trust’ and Edward Potten will speak about ‘Dating the Rylands Apocalypse Woodblock’. Joining is free, but booking is required. More details and a link to booking […]
February course at St Brides
St Bride’s Foundation are running a one day courses on using an Adana platen press, including hand typesetting and printing, as well as practical points regarding maintenance of the press, workshop management and what to look out for when purchasing equipment. It is running on 23 February. More details of the course and how to […]
Printing workshop at Glasgow Press
Join Glasgow Press on 10 February for a letterpress workshop, where you can create a poster using their antique Columbian and Vandercook printing presses. For more details and how to book visit the What’s on Glasgow site.
St Brides Library is closed in February
The reading room at St Brides Library will be closed to readers during February 2022. The Librarian will still be available to answer queries: email library@sbf.org.uk.
Peter Isaac Essay Prize 2022
To mark the occasion of the twenty-year anniversary Professor Peter Isaac’s death, Print Networks will award a prize for the best essay in the field of the history of the British book trades and their regional, national and international networks. For more details see the Centre for Printing History and Cuture website, or email Dr […]
St Brides Library
The reading room at St Brides Library is open every Wednesday. You can book a 3‑hour slots (12:00–3:00 or 3:30–6:30), by emailing library@sbf.org.uk.
Seminar on printed illustrations
The next HoPIN webinar will be held on Thursday, 20 January 2002, 5–6.30pm (GMT) on Zoom. The themes is ‘Contrasts in Print’ and the speakers are Sue May and Johanna Holmes. No charge to attend but booking is essential.
Adana printing courses at St Brides
St Bride’s Foundation are running their one day courses on using an Adana platen press, including hand typesetting and printing, as well as practical points regarding maintenance of the press, workshop management and what to look out for when purchasing equipment. They are running on 12 & 26 January, and 23 February. More details of […]
Contributors sought for book on 17th century printing
Contributions are being sought for an ‘Element’ in the Cambridge University Press Publishing and Book Culture series, entitled The People of Print in the Seventeenth Century. To propose a 2,750 word essay that profiles one figure, please email the editors, Dr Kaley Kramer (Sheffield Hallam University, k.a.kramer [at] shu.ac.uk), Dr Adam James Smith (York St […]
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