CPHC Annual Symposium  |  30 June 2017  |  Lecture Room 3, First Floor, Arts Building, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham

This is a FREE event, but you do need to reserve a ticket, which you can do here.

SPEAKERS

Malcolm Dick & Caroline Archer Welcome & review of the year

Lee Hale (Winterbourne) Crown Arab Press at Winterbourne and Josiah Wade

Rachel Stenner (University of Sheffield) The typographic imaginary in Early Modern English literature

John Hinks (Birmingham City University) Location, location, location: how early printers chose where to set up in business

Becky Howson (Birmingham City University) Against the grain: Leonard Jay and the Birmingham School of Printing

Barry McKay (Independent scholar) The manipulation of stereotypes on the 1863 shepherds’ guide

Sahar Afshar (Birmingham City University) Punjabi printing: a historical analysis of design, production and consumption from 1800 to today

Joanna Jarvis (Birmingham City University) eighteenth century frontispieces

Nigel Easom (University of Birmingham) Culture and change in the industrial city 1854–1939: the case of the Birmingham and Midland Institute

Joe Krawec (University of Birmingham) 1946 and all that ...

Jane Cooksey (Wolverhampton University) Jenny Gilbert-Evans (De Montfort University) Better dressed than Birmingham? Birmingham clothing wholesale in print,