The CPHC PGR annual one-day conference is back, with presentations from current members of the Centre, its doctoral students and alumni. Lunch, refreshments and end-of-the-day wine will be served.
Register here. Abstracts are available here.
PROGRAMME
10:30-12:00 session 1 (3 speakers + 30min Q&A)
Andie Lloyd: ‘Their malice vents itself on the walls’: Public Displays of Radical Print in early Nineteenth-Century Birmingham
Roseanna Smith: Hidden Hands: The Print Networks of the Coalbrookdale Company
Michelle Michel: Book pirates: Villains or victims?
12:00-1pm lunch
1-2pm session 2 (2 speakers + 20min Q&A)
Dr Beck Howson: The Double Rule. A duplexing of analogue and digital processes in the typographic workshop through the historical influence of letterpress and current technologies.
Dr Hazel Wilkinson: ‘The typography of eighteenth-century regional printing’
2-2:30pm break
2:30-4pm session 3 (3 speakers + 30min Q&A)
John Parkin: Printing History and Culture in School: devising a course for key stage four students
Dr Steve Hewett: Spreading the word: the commercial circulating library’s place in Birmingham’s print culture, c. 1750 to c.1850.
Dr David Osbaldestin: A work in progress presentation of: 'Walking through the industrial past of Nineteenth Century Birmingham.
4pm onwards social & drinks