News and events
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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’…
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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…
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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…
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Published Date
- April 17, 2023
Type design collection
What was previously the Non-Latin Type Collection is now part of the Type Design Collection. The Type Design Collection…
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Published Date
- March 27, 2023
Cultures of the book summer school
The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing Summer School on 20 and 21 June 2023 combines lectures, informal talks and…
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Published Date
- March 27, 2023
Metal type for world scripts
We have recently acquired a substantial collection of metal types from St Bride Library, covering over 30 different scripts, and…
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Published Date
- March 27, 2023
Diversity in Arabic script
Borna Izadpanah arranged a visit to the British Library to look at the stunning material in the Asian and African…
