As media companies grapple with the challenges presented by digital convergence and devices such as the iPad, this talk traces the evolution of the consumer magazine industry from its inception to the modern day.
Birmingham City University and the Centre for Printing History and Culture invite applications for a doctoral studentship on 'British News after Empire'.
Birmingham City University and the Centre for Printing History and Culture invite applications for a doctoral studentship on 'Punjabi Print Culture in Post-war Britain'.
On 17 October, 1960, the News Chronicle, a liberal daily that opposed fascism and stood for peace and reconciliation in international affairs, was sold to and absorbed by the Daily Mail.
The topographical views of the eighteenth century lend themselves to minute exploration, especially digitised images that can be zoomed into and enlarged onscreen.
The Centre for Printing History & Culture is delighted to be working with two of its partners, the Printing Historical Society, UK and the National Print Museum, Dublin in hosting a two day conference entitled From Craft to Technology and Back Again: prints progress in the twentieth century.
On the night of Easter Sunday 1916 in the basement of Liberty Hall, Dublin, Christopher Brady, William O’Brien and Michael Molloy printed 2,500 copies of Ireland's best known historic document, the 1916 Proclamation.
This Easter, millions of people across the English-speaking world, be worshiping in Churches using The King James Bible, also known as The Authorised Bible.
The Old Stile Press are pleased to announce the publication of a new book - currently being bound but soon to be ready for all our friends who find the linocut and woodcut imagery of John Abell outstanding and powerful.
The Doves typeface was used to print some of the most famous books of its day and became hugely valuable: then the man who created it hurled it into the River Thames.
Old habits die hard, and as I walked down the Euston Road I couldn’t resist looking at the most recent batch of tart cards that had been dropped in the telephone boxes.
The Centre for Printing History and Culture’s Winter Wayzgoose was the first of our seasonal meetings for anyone with an interest in printing, including practitioners and scholars.
In honor of James P. Danky's long service to print culture scholarship, the Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture, in conjunction with the Wisconsin Historical Society, is offering an annual short-term research fellowship.
It is 30 years years ago today that 5,500 newspaper workers went on strike after failing to agree terms and conditions with Rupert Murdoch's News International over a move to a new and high-tech printing plant at Wapping in the London Docklands.
Whoever said research is a mere excuse for idleness was probably right. I have frittered away many research hours examining some curiosity or other that I have stumbled upon and which has proved more captivating than the original focus of my attention.
