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Published Date
October 7, 2024

Review of 2024: Lettering, Printing and Graphic Design Collections

              Conferences, workshops and seminars The LPGDC featured in the SHARP conference collections sessions….

Published Date
July 23, 2024

Isotype and publishing

  An exhibition featuring work by the Isotype Institute relating to the publication of ‘soft propaganda’ during the Second World…

Published Date
April 19, 2024

John Miles

We were sorry to hear of the death of John Miles, a long-standing friend of the Department of Typography &…

Published Date
April 18, 2024

Flying high: a hundred years of airlines in Britain

We were delighted to welcome the Friends of the University to look at the Elizabeth Greig Collection of civil aviation…

Published Date
January 3, 2024

Review of 2023: Lettering, Printing and Graphic Design Collection

    2023 has seen continued and growing interest in the Lettering, Printing and Graphic Design Collection (LPGDC) for research,…

Published Date
October 24, 2023

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…

Published Date
September 14, 2023

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’…

Published Date
May 2, 2023

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…

Published Date
April 17, 2023

Ephemera tells us about Reading

Thanks to funding from the Friends of the University we have digitised material from our collections in the Centre for…