The Centre for Printing History & Culture and Winterbourne House, University of Birmingham, will be hosting the Association of European Printing Museums annual conference 3–5 September 2025. They invite proposals investigating the relationship between printing history and the heritage sites that are custodians of the material evidence of print (deadline 31 March 2025). For more […]
Robert Smail’s Printing Works opening 2024
25 March 2024 by
The National Trust for Scotland’s Robert Smail’s Printing Works opens for the season on 29 March 2024. For full details of opening times and how to get there see the NTS website.
‘Unfinished business’: Print Networks 2024
16 February 2024 by
This year’s Print Networks conference, Unfinished Business: Progress, Stasis and New Directions in the study of the Book Trade since Peter Isaac, will be held at Newcastle University on 9–10 July 2024. Details of the call for papers are on the Centre for Printing History and Culture website. Please submit abstracts of 200–250 words by February […]
Conference on printing by subscription
29 August 2023 by
Booking is now open for Pre-paid Printing: a conference organised by the Baskerville Society on the role of private funds and public subscribers in the issuing and circulation of printed matter, to be held at Winterbourne House and Garden at the University of Birmingham on September 14 and 15, 2023. For more details see the […]
Print Networks 2023
29 June 2023 by
The annual Print Networks / CPHC Symposium takes place in partnership with St Bride Library in London on 19 July 2023 The theme this year is ‘Print networks between London and the regions, looking at looks at physical and metaphorical book trade connections between London and the regions from the early modern to the present. […]
Online book launch: Women in Print 2
2 April 2023 by
An online book launch is being held on Thursday 13 April to mark the publication of Women in Print 2: production, distribution and consumption, the second of two linked volumes of essays, published by Peter Lang. The event is organised by the Centre for Printing History and Culture and more details can be found on […]
Smail’s open for 2023
25 March 2023 by
Robert Smail’s Printing Works in Innerleithen is open for the 2023 season from 1 April. For full details of opening hours and charges, see the National Trust for Scotland’s website.
Online book launch: Women in Print 1
3 February 2023 by
An online book launch event, hosted by the Centre for Printing History and Culture in Birmingham will be held on Thursday 16 February to mark the publication of Women in Print 1: design and identities, published by Peter Lang. For more details and how to book see the CPHC website.
Printing on subscription: call for papers
28 January 2023 by
The Centre for Printing History and Culture, in association with the Baskerville Society, has put out a call for papers for a conference on the theme Prepaid printing: approaches to the study of subscribers’ lists to be held at Winterbourne House at the University of Birmingham in September 2023. The deadline for proposals is 1 […]
Exhibition in Dundee
20 December 2022 by
The free exhibition at the V & A in Dundee is continuing until May 2023. Sincerely, Valentines – From Postcards to Greetings Cards tells the story of one of Scotland’s pioneering commercial photographers, established in 1825 in Dundee. Valentines capitalised on rapid developments in photography, printing and tourism in the early 20th century and became […]
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