The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing (CBCP) is pleased to announce the 4th Postgraduate Symposium will take place on Tuesday, 19th May 2026. This is an opportunity for PhD…Read More >
Global Perspectives on Lithographic Printing
5 and 6 March 2026 Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading Building on Michael Twyman’s pioneering scholarship, this symposium will explore lithography as a truly global medium….Read More >
CfP: People in Publishing: Diversity, Leadership and Publishing’s Futures
People in Publishing: Diversity, Leadership and Publishing’s Futures Monday 29th June 2026 University of Reading, UK Call for Participation This symposium aims to critically examine the structural and cultural barriers…Read More >
Call for Papers: Special Issue of The Bulletin of Contemporary Hispanic Studies
Issue Title: Beyond ‘bringing books and children together’: Critical approaches to reading promotion and literacy in Latin America Call for Papers: In 1964, the International Board on Books for Young…Read More >
Past, Present, and Future of Modernist Editing: on the CBCP ‘Modernist Editing’ Symposium
by Dr Buxi Duan Fig 1: Typescript with handwritten annotation for Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf from the Hogarth Press archive. Courtesy of the Modernist Archives Publishing Project What does…Read More >
Julie Cohen
PhD Project: Together: A Case Study in Differing Views of Genre in Writing and Publishing Commercial Fiction Supervisors: Prof Peter Robinson (Reading) and Prof Nicola Wilson (Reading) Julie is undertaking…Read More >
Research Fellowship in Ephemera Studies
Applications are invited for the Michael Twyman Research Fellowship in Ephemera Studies in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading. The Fellowship is available from…Read More >
Dr Xunchang Cheng awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship
We are delighted to share that Dr Xunchang Cheng, one of our CBCP Research Fellows 2024–5, has been awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship for his project ‘A critical examination of Chinese typeface…Read More >
Exploring chromolithography
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…Read More >
Printing Historical Society AGM and Lecture, 26 July 2025
The 2025 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Printing Historical Society (PHS) will be taking place on Saturday 26th July from 14.00–15.00 at the St Bride Foundation and online via…Read More >