Fifty years ago this year the University of Reading acquired an archive of about 60,000 letters, the incoming correspondence of the publishers Macmillan & Co. Ltd dating back to 1875.
The theme of the 24th annual meeting of the British Women Writers Conference is “Making a Scene,” and papers that play with the elasticity of this phrase vis-à-vis eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writings by women are welcomed.
The Printing Historical Society is pleased to announce that it is seeking applications for funding to be awarded in 2016 under its grants programme. See below for further information on the eligibility of work for funding by the Society.
On a first reading of Lord Northcliffe’s Newspaper Millionaires, a pamphlet published by the press baron on the year of his death in 1922, I was struck by his concern for the welfare of the printers who worked on his newspapers.
A new exhibition launching at the British Museum on Thursday 26 November will examine the earliest attempts to incorporate colour into printmaking in the 1400s and 1500s in the German lands—where colour printmaking began in the West.
In 1957 Beatrice Warde, renowned typographic theoretician and publicity director of Monotype, undertook a promotional tour of South Africa and Australia.
On Friday 4 November Chris Hill visited the Marx Memorial Library in Clerkenwell, London. As a researcher embarking on a project about the political solidarities of printers and compositors, the experience promised to be an incredibly valuable one.
Collotype was based on a French discovery in 1855, and was in full commercial use by the 1870s. Before half-tone screening, it was the only photomechanical process capable of reproducing tone.
