This year’s Print Networks conference, Unfinished Business: Progress, Stasis and New Directions in the study of the Book Trade since Peter Isaac, will be held at Newcastle University on 910 July 2024. Details of the call for papers are on the Centre for Printing History and Culture website. Please submit abstracts of 200250 words by February […]
Conference on printing by subscription
August 29, 2023 by
Booking is now open for Pre-paid Printing: a conference organised by the Baskerville Society on the role of private funds and public subscribers in the issuing and circulation of printed matter, to be held at Winterbourne House and Garden at the University of Birmingham on September 14 and 15, 2023. For more details see the […]
Print Networks 2023
June 29, 2023 by
The annual Print Networks / CPHC Symposium takes place in partnership with St Bride Library in London on 19 July 2023 The theme this year is ‘Print networks between London and the regions, looking at looks at physical and metaphorical book trade connections between London and the regions from the early modern to the present. […]
Printing on subscription: call for papers
January 28, 2023 by
The Centre for Printing History and Culture, in association with the Baskerville Society, has put out a call for papers for a conference on the theme Prepaid printing: approaches to the study of subscribers’ lists to be held at Winterbourne House at the University of Birmingham in September 2023. The deadline for proposals is 1 […]
Booking open for Print Networks 2022
April 12, 2022 by
Booking is open for the 2022 Print Networks conference in Appleby-in-Westmorland on 2627 April 2022: the theme is Around the text. The conference details and link to booking on the website of the Centre for Printing History and Culture.
Call for papers Around the text
July 24, 2021 by
Proposals for papers are invited on the theme of Around the Text for a conference to be held in Appleby-in-Westmorland in Cumbria in early April 2022. The conference will consider supporting materials and activities around the design, production, and promotion of a printed text, particularly in the Anglophone world. Full details of the conference theme […]
Printing for tourists
July 5, 2021 by
Booking is open for the online conference A visitor attraction: printing for tourists which is to take place via Zoom on 2021 July 2021. Full details of the conference programme and how to book are available on the website of the Centre for Printing History and Culture.
Online conference on printing
March 8, 2021 by
Registration is open for the one day conference on Places, spaces and the printing press: imprinting regional identities organised by the Centre for Printing History & Culture in Birmingham and the National and University Library, Ljubljana, Slovenia. It will take place online on Wednesday 24 March 2021. Details of how to book are available on […]
Conference on regional printing
August 10, 2020 by
A conference on Places, spaces and the printing press: imprinting regional identities will take place in March 2021 At the National and University Library, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Paper proposal should be submitted by 20 September 2020, and a selection of papers, in expanded form, will be published in a specially edited volume of the series ‘Printing […]
New date for Printing for Tourists conference
April 28, 2020 by
The Print Networks / CPHC Conference A visitor attraction: printing for tourists which was due to take place in Appleby-in-Westmoreland in July 2020 has been postponed to 2021 July 2021. Printing for tourists’ encompasses tickets, notices, leaflets, labels, folders, billheads and other throwaways, alongside books both physical and virtual, that have come to represent tourists […]
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