CPHC Webinar – Wood-engraving and woodcuts

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Thursday 21 January: 17:00-18:30 HoPIN webinar: Wood-engraving and woodcuts To book your place for this free event, please click here. BARRY MCKAY (INDEPENDENT RESEARCHER AND ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLER) THE DUNN FAMILY OF CHAPBOOK PRINTERS AND THE WOODCUTS OF ‘R.M.’ John Dunn of Whitehaven was the first printer of chapbooks in Cumberland, after an interregnum when the […]

CPHC Conference call for papers: Gender and the Book Trades

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Call for Papers: Gender and the Book Trades DEADLINE 31 JANUARY This conference is organised by the USTC at the University of St Andrews. Gender has always played a role in the history of the book. Whether explicitly acknowledged or implicitly assumed, considerations of gender have shaped the printed book and its subsequent study. Important […]

CPHC Webinar – Typographic Surprises!

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Friday 26 February: 18:00-19:30. To book your place for this free event, please click here. Typographic Surprises! is a series of Webinars, organised by the Printing Historical Society, which look at lesser-known aspects of print’s past, investigate curiosities of typographic archives, and delve into the corners of printed collections. CONFIRMED PRESENTATIONS DR ALEXANDRA FRANKLIN, A […]

CPHC webinar – Illustrating Identity

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Monday 22 March: 17:00-18:30 HoPIN Webinar: Illustrating Identity To book your free place nearer to the time, please click here. Adrian, Slaney (BCU), Printed silks Georgina Grant (Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust), Ironware and illustration: the Coalbrookdale Company catalogues Dr Henrietta Lockart (University of Birmingham), Industrial illustration in the Guest, Keen & Nettlefolds Collection Martin Killeen […]

CPHC webinar conference

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CPHC webinar conference – Places, spaces and the printing press: imprinting regional identities 0900-1730 Wednesday 24 March - Thursday 25 March 2021 Information available via this link. This conference considers how the places and spaces associated with printing may have affected the development of the press and its products; and, conversely, how the press and […]

CPHC webinar – Typographic Surprises!

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Friday 30 April: 18:00-19:30 Printing Historical Society: Typographic Surprises! To book your free place nearer to the time, please click here. Information to follow.

CPHC webinar – Photography

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Wednesday 5 May: 17:00-18:30 HoPIN webinar: Photography To book your free place nearer to the time, please click here. Dr Anthony Hamber (Independent Scholar), The rise of photographic illustration 1839-80 Soon after the announcements in 1839 of the photographic processes of Daguerre and Fox Talbot, the application of the revolutionary medium to illustration of printed […]

CPHC webinar – Typographic Surprises!

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Friday 25 June: 18:00-19:30 Printing Historical Society: Typographic Surprises! To book your free place nearer to the time, please click here. Information to follow.

CPHC webinar – Engraving

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Thursday 8 July: 17:00-18:30 HoPIN webinar: Engraving To book your free place nearer to the time, please click here. Dr Caroline Archer (CPHC), Michel Bouchaud (1902-65): Ritz: trente typogrammes Dr John Hinks (Honorary Research Fellow, CPHC), Sir Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910): and the British etching revival Despite his ‘amateur’ status (he was an eminent surgeon), […]

CPHC conference: A visitor attraction: Printing for tourists

The Hub, Appleby-in-Westmorland

Conference date and venue: 20-21 July July 2021 | The Hub, Appleby-in-Westmorland CumbriAlfred Wainwright (1907-91) is best known for his seven Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells. Published between 1955-66 these handwritten, hand-drawn works of art have become the definitive guides to walking in the English Lake District. The 2021 CPHC/Print Networks Conference will take […]

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