The History of the Printed Image Network (HoPIN) is a new network for anyone interested in the history of printed images, including (but not limited to) artistic prints, book illustration, chapbooks, ballad-sheets, etc. There is no charge for membership or for online events. The network is part of the Centre for Printing History and Culture […]
Conference on regional printing
August 10, 2020
A conference on Places, spaces and the printing press: imprinting regional identities will take place in March 2021 At the National and University Library, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Paper proposal should be submitted by 20 September 2020, and a selection of papers, in expanded form, will be publislhed in a specially edited volume of the series ‘Printing […]
Periscope Press acquires Victoria printing machine
July 13, 2020
SPrAT Trustee, Tim Honnor has recently installed a new machine at the his private press in Inverness. The Victoria printing machine may be the only one of its kind in Scotland in working order — it was made in 1932 and is electrically driven. The Periscope Press also has a treadle ‘Arab’ platen made in […]
New date for ‘Printing for Tourists’ conference
April 28, 2020
The Print Networks / CPHC Conference ‘A visitor attraction: printing for tourists’ which was due to take place in Appleby-in-Westmoreland in July 2020 has been postponed to 20–21 July 2021. ‘Printing for tourists’ encompasses tickets, notices, leaflets, labels, folders, billheads and other throwaways, alongside books both physical and virtual, that have come to represent tourists […]
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.
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
St Bride’s Library opening in December
November 18, 2019
St Bride’s Library will be open on Wednesday 4 December and Wednesday 18 December 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 […]
November opening at St Bride’s Library
October 26, 2019
St Bride’s Library will be open on Wednesday 6 November and Wednesday 20 November 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 […]
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