In March 2024, at the Library of Birmingham, a collaborative team of researchers from the University of Cambridge and Birmingham City University launched an AHRC-funded project entitled ‘Small Performances; investigating the typographic punches of John Baskerville through heritage science and practice based research’. Two years later, the team is back in Birmingham, taking an interlude from their work to present their research and findings so far.

They would love you to come and see, hear, experience and celebrate their research, and to join them for afternoon tea and cakes The event is free, but spaces are limited, reserve you seat HERE.

Speakers

Marcos Martinón Torres (Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge) Small Performances: an introduction to the projec, its people, and the achievements so far.

Caroline Archer-Parré (Centre for Printing History & Culture, BCU) From Tools to Jewells: an object biography approach to the punches.

Liam Sims (University of Cambridge Library) The Baskerville Renaissance in the Cambridge Archives.

Julia Montes Landa (Universidad de Granada) The Manufacture of the Baskerville Punches: the versatile chain operator of an eighteenth-century printing workshop.

Emily Watt (Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge) Geometric Metamorphics: an investigation into Baskervillian letter shapes.

Mark Box (Cultural Heritage Imaging Lab, University of Cambridge) The Dark Side and the Light Side: photographing the Baskerville punches.

Maciej Pawlikowski (Cultural Heritage Imaging Lab, University of Cambridge) Cataloguing the Baskerville punches.

Ann-Marie Carey + Keith Adcock (School of Jewellery, BCU) Revelations of Craftsmanship: 3D modelling of the Baskerville punches.

Michele Patané (Type Design Consultant, London) Making a Digital Revival of Baskerville’s Typeface