Tony Quinn, author of A History of British Magazine Design, tells us about Woman magazine, defined in its own words as ‘a journal of information, entertainment and practical counsel for womankind the wide world over’.

Howard Cox, Professor of International Business History at the University of Worcester and co-author of Revolutions from Grub Street, delivered the following keynote address at the annual symposium of CPHC on 28 June at Winterbourne House.

As media companies grapple with the challenges presented by digital convergence and devices such as the iPad, this talk traces the evolution of the consumer magazine industry from its inception to the modern day.

The Centre for Printing History and Culture (CPHC) has up to three doctoral scholarships available for candidates of exceptional promise.  

On the night of Easter Sunday 1916 in the basement of Liberty Hall, Dublin, Christopher Brady, William O’Brien and Michael Molloy printed 2,500 copies of Ireland's best known historic document, the 1916 Proclamation.

The Old Stile Press are pleased to announce the publication of a new book - currently being bound but soon to be ready for all our friends who find the linocut and woodcut imagery of John Abell outstanding and powerful.

The Doves typeface was used to print some of the most famous books of its day and became hugely valuable: then the man who created it hurled it into the River Thames.

Old habits die hard, and as I walked down the Euston Road I couldn’t resist looking at the most recent batch of tart cards that had been dropped in the telephone boxes.

In 2012, Lee Hale, curator and head of Winterbourne House and Garden, was asked to visit a cellar at Westmere House down the road in Edgbaston. 

The Centre for Printing History and Culture’s Winter Wayzgoose was the first of our seasonal meetings for anyone with an interest in printing, including practitioners and scholars.

In honor of James P. Danky's long service to print culture scholarship, the Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture, in conjunction with the Wisconsin Historical Society, is offering an annual short-term research fellowship.