News and events

Published Date
March 28, 2025

New Baxter Society

The New Baxter Society has given us Honorary Membership for as long as the Society exists by way of thanks…

Published Date
November 21, 2024

The Historic Presses Workshop

A new printing workshop has been set up in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication so that students and…

Published Date
October 7, 2024

30 years of ephemera studies at Reading

The University’s renowned Centre for Ephemera Studies (CES), based in Typography & Graphic Communication, celebrates its 30 year anniversary.  CES…

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…