REGISTRATION: £25 for two days. Tickets can be booked HERE.

Thanks to the generous support of the Bibliographical Society we are able to offer ten postgraduate students free admission to the event. If you would like to take advantage of the free tickets, please email Caroline Archer with your details including the name of your institution, course, and mode of study. Student tickets are available on a first-come first-served basis.

This Webinar takes as its theme ‘printing for tourists.’ The history of travel, transport and tourism is often graphically captured in the transient paper oddments which it has generated. This conference will look at the tickets, notices, leaflets, labels, folders, billheads and other throwaways, alongside books both physical and virtual, that have come to represent tourists and tourism across the ages.

Registration is now open. Tickets £25.00 for two days.

PROGRAMME times given in British Summer Time (GMT+1)

DAY 1: 20 JULY 2021

1000-1015: Barry McKay + Caroline Archer: Welcome

SESSION 1: SOUVENIRS (CHAIR: Caroline Archer): 1015-1035: Tess Goodman, 'Fancy wood work of the district': status souvenirs from Victorian Scotland; 1035-1055: Stephen Ferguson, 'Wish you were here': the postcard in Irish tourism; 1055-1115: Ian Maxted, Drives in and about Torquay, 1863-1864 : an early illustrated travel blog; 1115-1130: Q+A

1130-1200: BREAK

SESSION 2: MAKING VISTAS (CHAIR: John Hinks): 1200-1220: Barry McKay, Leporello albums of Glaser Prints: A short-lived method of providing tourists with souvenir views of local attractions; 1220-1240: Shijia Yu, A sense of exclusiveness in print: meaning-making of watering resorts through nineteenth-century paper Peepshows; 1240-1255: Q+A

1300-1400: LUNCH

SESSION 3: THE LAKE DISTRICT (CHAIR: Barry McKay): 1400-1420: Chris Donaldson: From the Lake Counties to the English Lakes: how print culture helped define the Lake District; 1420-1440: Diana Patterson: Peter Crosthwaite’s Tourist Maps; 1440-1500: Liz Woodham: 'Nothing more than my own personal notebook' : the composition, design and consumption of Alfred Wainwright’s Pictorial Guides to the English Lake District; 1500-1515: Q+A

1515-1545: BREAK

Session 4: ENGLISHMEN ABROAD (CHAIR: John Hinks): 1545-1605: Susan May, The Marvels of Rome, the first English translation of a twelfth-century Latin guidebook, published in 1889 by Ellis and Elvey of London; 1605-1625: Federica Mirra, Thames Town: re-imagining Stratford Upon Avon in Shanghai; 1625-1640: q+a

1640-1645: Barry McKay: Conclusion

DAY 2: 21 JULY 2021

1000-1015: Barry McKay + Caroline Archer: Welcome

SESSION 5: ARCHIVES (CHAIR: Giles Bergel): 1015-1035: Carina Broman, Why not visit Britain? Graphic comments on printed advertising and tourism information for Swedes; 1035-1055: Emma Minns, A flying visit to Reading: travel and tourism; 1055-1115: Andrew Mcilwraith, Journeys of discovery: 140 years of visitor maps at the British Museum and the V&A; 1115-1130: Q+A

1130-1200: BREAK

SESSION 6: ADVERTISING AND PROMOTION (CHAIR: Elaine Jackson): 1200-1220: Anthony Quinn: A whirlwind tour of tourism in magazines: 1881-2019; 1220-1240: Lisa Peters: Newspapers for tourists: 'visitor' newspapers in Victorian Britain; 1240-1255: q+a

1255-1305: COMFORT BREAK

SESSION 7: DESIGN (CHAIR: Catherine Armstrong): 1305-1325: Rose Roberto, Imagining the Alps during the nineteenth century:tales of the Great St Bernard and peaks, passes, and glaciers; 1325-1345: Caroline Archer-Parré, Typographic tourists; 1345-1400: Q+A

1400-1405: Barry McKay: Conclusion

Print Networks committee: Caroline Archer-Parré; Catherine Armstrong; Maureen Bell; Giles Bergel; Ruth Connolly; John Hinks; Elaine Jackson; Barry McKay; David Osbaldestin; Lisa Peters