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.

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 […]

New developments In November 2024 we (and CBCP) hosted a launch of our new Historic Presses Research and Teaching Workshop. The workshop comprises three research-led reconstructions: a one-pull press; a […]

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 […]

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 […]

A new printing workshop has been set up in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication so that students and researchers can use and study an unusual and distinctive collection […]

Conferences, workshops and seminars The LPGDC featured in the SHARP conference collections sessions. As well as the introduction of the lithographic pole press, other sessions featured the Type Design Collection. […]

We were sorry to hear of the death of John Miles, a long-standing friend of the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, and a one-time External Examiner for our undergraduate […]