Caroline Archer-Parré is Professor of Typography, Co-director of the Centre for Printing History and Culture at Birmingham City University, and Chairman of the Baskerville Society. With an interest in typographic history from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, Caroline has published widely. She is the author of three books, including The Kynoch Press 1876-1981: the anatomy of a printing house (British Library, 2000), Tart Cards: London’s illicit advertising art (MBP, 2003) and Paris Underground (MBP, 2005). With Malcolm Dick she has co-edited John Baskerville: Art and Industry of the Enlightenment (Liverpool University Press, 2017) and James Watt, 1736-1819: Culture, Innovation and Enlightenment (Liverpool University Press, 2020). She contributes to numerous journals and writes regularly for the trade and academic press.

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Caroline.archer@bcu.ac.uk