Whoever said research is a mere excuse for idleness was probably right. I have frittered away many research hours examining some curiosity or other that I have stumbled upon and which has proved more captivating than the original focus of my attention. 

The period of women’s literary history between 1930 and 1960 is beginning to receive the closer attention of literary scholars, feminists and cultural historians. It is a period characterised in many ways by the prefix ‘re’; emblematic of the persistent impulse for re-evaluation of women’s writing that occupies an uncertain, liminal place in relation to the canon.

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Ireland became increasingly integrated within a British economic and political space. After 1801, Ireland formed part of the United Kingdom and it supplied both food and labour power to industrialising Britain. The same pattern appears in the domain of print...

Fifty years ago this year the University of Reading acquired an archive of about 60,000 letters, the incoming correspondence of the publishers Macmillan & Co. Ltd dating back to 1875.

The theme of the 24th annual meeting of the British Women Writers Conference is “Making a Scene,” and papers that play with the elasticity of this phrase vis-à-vis eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writings by women are welcomed.

The Printing Historical Society is pleased to announce that it is seeking applications for funding to be awarded in 2016 under its grants programme. See below for further information on the eligibility of work for funding by the Society.

A new exhibition launching at the British Museum on Thursday 26 November will examine the earliest attempts to incorporate colour into printmaking in the 1400s and 1500s in the German lands—where colour printmaking began in the West.

In 1957 Beatrice Warde, renowned typographic theoretician and publicity director of Monotype, undertook a promotional tour of South Africa and Australia.

The Courtauld Institute of Art has put out a call for papers under the title: 'Placing Prints: New Developments in the Study of Print, 1400-1800'

On Friday 4 November Chris Hill visited the Marx Memorial Library in Clerkenwell, London.  As a researcher embarking on a project about the political solidarities of printers and compositors, the experience promised to be an incredibly valuable one.

The current research of CPHC member Jessica Glaser is focused on understanding and responding to type.

In 1952, electronics invaded the field of block making when Dr Rudolph Hell invented the klischograph and revolutionised pre-press technology.