Print Networks 2023

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. […]

Wood engraving taster day at St Brides

St Brides Foun­da­tion in Lon­don are run­ning a taster course, suit­able for absolute begin­ners, on the relief print­ing tech­nique of wood engrav­ing on Tues­day 27 Feb­ru­ary 2023 from 11am- 17pm. For more details and how to book, see the St Brides website.

Talk on the origins of the Adana press

Adana was found­ed in 1922 and still trad­ing today as part of the Caslon group of com­pa­nies. Bob Richard­son will give a talk (in per­son at St Bride Foun­da­tion & online) enti­tled Print Pound Notes! Cel­e­brat­ing 100 years of Adana on 31 Jan­u­ary 2023.  For more details and how to book see the St Bride […]

Beatrice Warde Lecture 2022

The 2022 Beat­rice Warde Memo­r­i­al Lec­ture take place on 10 Novem­ber. It will be a cel­e­bra­tion of Beatrice’s life and work by Nico­las Bark­er, who met her in the late 1940s. For more details and how to book a place (in-per­­son or online) see the St Bride’s Foun­da­tion website. 

Adana workshops at St Brides

St Brides Foun­da­tion is hold­ing one-day work­shops on print­ing with an Adana press: details of dates and how to book are on their website.

Introductions to St Brides and the Norwich Printing Museum

The next Typo­graph­ic Sur­pris­es event will be held in con­junc­tion with the Print­ing His­tor­i­cal Soci­ety on Zoom on Thurs­day 16 June 6.30–8pm. It will con­sist of a vir­tu­al tour of the Library at the St Bride’s Insti­tute with Sophie Hawkey-Edwards, Bob Richard­son and Mick Clay­ton, fea­turin­ng high­lights from the library, muse­um col­lec­tions and work­shop. Paul […]

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 […]

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.

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.

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 […]