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This event marks the publication of Women in Print 2 production, distribution and consumption which considers the roles occupied by women in the of printed matter

Women have often participated in design and print culture throughout history, yet their impact has typically been neglected and undervalued, or deliberately obscured from historical accounts. These talks cover, and recover, the lives and work of women in print, emphasizing how their contributions brought positive change not only to the industries they contributed to, but also to the wider social and cultural settings of their time.

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

INTRODUCTION to the series Caroline Archer Parré, John Hinks, Series Editors

INTRODUCTION to the volume Caroline Archer Parré, John Hinks Volume editors

TALKS 

Joseph Saunders, Widows, Wives and Daughters: Female Agency in the Social Network of the Early Modern English Print Trade, c.1623–41; Kate Moffatt, From Print to Process: Gender, Creative-Adjacent Labour and the Women’s Print History Project; Michelle Levy, John Murray’s Principal Women of Letter.

Q+A

Zsuzsa Török, Hungarian Women in Scottish Print: Stephanie Wohl’s Occasional Correspondence in The Scotsman; Helen Williams, ‘Dangerous Intruders’: Women Compositors and Nineteenth-century Print Trade Unionists – the Case of Perth; Özlem Özkal & Ömer Durmaz, Ottoman Women’s Print Network and Their Creative Contribution to Print Culture in Turkey.

Q+A 

CONCLUDING REMARKS