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 […]
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 […]