To celebrate ten years of the research in the Centre for Printing History & Culture, we are holding a one-day conference to showcase the work of its doctoral community past and present.
Funded by the Bibliographical Society the event is free of charge, and includes a sandwich lunch. Pre-registration is required as places are limited. Booking is available here.
PROGRAMME
Session 1: 10:00-11:00
Steve Hewett (University of Birmingham): ‘For all our people’ the establishment of the municipal public library in Victorian Birmingham. Thesis: Civic Gospel and Municipal Culture: Birmingham’s Free Libraries, 1851 to 1898
Andrea Lloyd (Birmingham City University): Financing Birmingham’s Early Nineteenth-Century Radical Press. Thesis: ‘An indissoluble unity’: considering the relationship between outward influences and the design of Birmingham’s radical newspapers 1815-21 (funded by M4C)
Session 2: 11:30-12:30
Adrian Slaney (Birmingham City University): Four Maharajas: Motifs and Mystery Thesis: Interpreting a Collection of Woven and Printed Cigarette Silk Inserts
John Parkin (Birmingham City University): What do we make of the linecaster? Thesis: Letterpress Printing as ‘Craft’ in the Machine Age and Today: A Practice-Based Enquiry Centred on the Intertype Linecaster.
Session 3: 13:30-14:30
Michelle Michel (University of Birmingham): Revealing secrets with age: the stories told by woodcuts in the printed texts of John Danter. Thesis: The life and work of printer-publisher John Danter
Roseanna Smith (Birmingham City University): Reading between the lines: Evidence of art and industry in the Coalbrookdale printing block collection. Thesis: Common Printed Things: Intersections of Art and Industry in the Coalbrookdale Collection 1850-1930, Collaborative Doctoral Award with The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, (funded by M4C)
Session 4: 15:00-16:00
Teresa Jones (University of Birmingham): The Midland Medical and Surgical Reporter and Topographical and Statistical Journal 1828-1832. Thesis: Print Culture and Medical Thinking and Practice in Worcester 1660-1830
Marwa Isa (Birmingham City University): The correlation between graphic trends of printed advertisement in the 1950s and the technological, social and cultural shifts in Bahrain. Thesis: Multilingual viewers’ cultural perceptions of multi-script advertisement design: a Bahraini case-study.