Virtual Museum of Printing
Our Historic Presses Research and Teaching Workshop is now part of the Virtual Museum of Printing that aims to bring together the printing-historical resources of the British Isles in one site.
Arts Council England accreditation
We are pleased to have been awarded full museum-accredited status for the LPGDC. Accreditation is the benchmark for well-run collections, museums and galleries, and affirms that the LPGDC are managed […]
Exploring chromolithography
We were delighted to welcome Dr Helena Barros (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro) as a CBCP Visiting Fellow. Helena worked with the Michael Twyman chromolithography collection with an emphasis on progressive […]
Extending the reach of our printing presses research
In February 2025, we supported London’s oldest Church, St Bartholomew the Great, with its 300th anniversary celebration of Benjamin Franklin’s first visit to London. Since the Reformation, the Lady Chapel […]
An entertaining time
We welcomed the Friends of the University and on a separate occasion the Berks Oxon Camsoc to view material from our collections of Entertainment ephemera. Assistant Curator, Emma Minns, introduced […]
New Baxter Society
The New Baxter Society has given us Honorary Membership for as long as the Society exists by way of thanks for hosting their Annual General Meeting in July 2024. This […]
Student engagement and support with the Collections
Sue Walker and Emma Minns were pleased to welcome Clara Fidler-Brown, part 2 student, as a funded Collections Assistant in the summer vacation of Summer 2023. Clara writes: I’ve thoroughly […]
Up in Arms: posters for protest, solidarity, engagement and action
Up in Arms, an exhibition curated to coincide with the Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing annual conference, ‘Publishing Anti-fascism’ shows posters from the collection of twentieth-century posters is one […]
Way of Type – Evolution of Chinese Typeforms
The exhibition charts the development of type and type-making technologies in China, from the invention of movable type in the eleventh century to the design of digital typefaces of today. […]
PhD research with printed ephemera
Congratulations to Bodil Mostad Olsen who has been awarded her PhD based on a study of printed ephemera. ‘A diachronic study of food labels with a particular focus on verbal […]