This event takes place in the Main Library, 4th Floor Training Room, University of Birmingham. It is free of charge, but booking is required. Ticket are available here.

PROGRAMME

1300-1330 Registration, tea and coffee

Session One: BASKERVILLE’S BACKGROUND

1330-1340: Welcome

1340-1410: Malcolm Dick: The topographies of a typographer: mapping John Baskerville since the eighteenth century

1410-1430: Lucy Angus: Digitizing Aris’s Birmingham Gazette

1430-1445 Q+A

1445-1500 tea and coffee break

Session Two: BASKERVILLE’S BOOKS

1500-1520: Ann-Marie Carey: The Baskerville Punches

1520-1540: Susan Worrall/Mark Eccleston: The Cadbury Research Library’s Baskerville Holdings

1540-1555: Q+A

1655-1600: Comfort break

Session Three: COLLECTORS CORNER

1615-1700: Keith Adams, Peter Allen, Caroline Archer, Jim Attridge, Martin Killeen, Barry McKay, Elaine Mitchell, Alexandre Parré

Session Four: THE BOULTON FAMILY BASKERVILLE’S BIBLE

1700-1800: Caroline Archer, Alexandre Parre + Martin Killeen

1800-1815: Q+A

1815:-1825: Concluding remarks