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 […]
Concrete poetry in Britain, 1963–75
Based on material from the collection of the late Andrew Belsey, philosophy lecturer, concrete poet and MA graduate from Typography & Graphic Communication, “Objects made of letters” explores and illustrates […]
Marie Neurath’s books for children
Sue Walker and Emma Minns attended a conference about Marie Neurath held at the Gesellshafts- und Wirtschafts Museum in Vienna in October 2022. Walker gave the keynote lecture ‘Marie Neurath’s books for […]
‘Don’t throw that away! Exploring the significance of ephemera’
In January 2023, Emeritus Professor Michal Twyman and Assistant Curator Emma Minns gave papers on different aspects of ephemera at a one-day workshop held at the School of Art, Prifysgol Aberystwyth University. Twyman […]
An ephemeral encounter
‘An ephemeral encounter’ to look at examples of Reading ephemera, with an opportunity to print from a block made by a Reading printer. The Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at […]
Bookplate Stories: Christina Frances Hicks
This post is part of a series of stories written by Liz West, Fellow in Ephemera Studies, about the Amoret Tanner bookplate collection. Read more here · Story one Aiming […]
Bookplate Stories: Ephraim McDowel Cosgrave
This post is part of a series of stories written by Liz West, Fellow in Ephemera Studies, about the Amoret Tanner bookplate collection. Read more here · Story one ‘A […]