Malcolm Dick is a historian of eighteenth and nineteenth-century British History with a specialist interest in the economic, social and cultural development of Birmingham and the wider West Midlands. He developed an interest in print history and culture through his research into Birmingham’s history where John Baskerville created his publications and the wider printing industry contributed significantly to the town’s identity. Working with Caroline Archer on the creation of the Baskerville Society and the Centre for Printing History and Culture has developed his interest in the historiography of printing history and the interplay between the production of books, technology, ideas and artisan culture during the Industrial Enlightenment in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. 

m.m.dick@bham.ac.uk