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 […]

We were delighted to welcome the Friends of the University to look at the Elizabeth Greig Collection of civil aviation ephemera. The first UK national airline, Imperial Airways, was created […]

2023 has seen continued and growing interest in the Lettering, Printing and Graphic Design Collection (LPGDC) for research, outreach and education. Highlights include visits from academic researchers from overseas, the […]

Thanks to funding from the Friends of the University we have digitised material from our collections in the Centre for Ephemera Studies that tell us something of the history of […]

What was previously the Non-Latin Type Collection is now part of the Type Design Collection. The Type Design Collection also includes type specimens, metal and wooden type and type drawings […]