As a Visiting Research Fellow at the CBCP, Sophie Thompson will investigate the Walter Crane holdings at the University of Reading, examining Crane’s pivotal role in shaping a distinctive Arts…Read More >
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Type design from chromolithography treasures
CBCP Fellow Helena de Barros has designed a typeface, ‘Chromiste’, based on the collection of chromo-lithographed Liebig trade cards held in the Lettering, Printing and Graphic Design Collection, that she…Read More >
Berta Ferrer – CBCP Visiting Research Fellow
For her research fellowship with the CBCP, Berta Ferrer will explore printed collage as a technique (in both text and image). Drawing attention to a design process embedded in the…Read More >
Lawrence Jones – CBCP Visiting Research Fellow
For his research fellowship with the CBCP, Lawrence Jones will explore E. M. Forster’s (1879-1970) publishing activities in the U.S. He will conduct a detailed analysis of correspondence held in…Read More >
Reanna Brooks – CBCP Visiting Research Fellow
During her Visiting Research Fellowship at the CBCP, Reanna Brooks will pursue an archival study of the early circulation of small-press modernism in the post-First World War period. The project…Read More >
CBCP Visiting Research Fellowship scheme 2025-6: call for applications
CBCP Visiting Research Fellowship programme 2025-6 We are pleased to announce that CBCP Visiting Research Fellowships are now available to scholars and researchers looking to conduct research and shape a…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 >
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 >
Constructing Eve: A Materials Investigation of the Iconic Woman
by Jennifer Davis Taylor, Short-Term Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2025), University of Reading How is femininity made—not just socially, but textually, visually, ideologically? In 1697, Charles Perrault—best known today for fairy…Read More >
Sharla Attala
PhD project: ‘Our Petal: A Patchwork of Memory and Class’ – a creative and critical exploration of working-class women’s writing and identity in contemporary Britain. Supervisors: Prof Nicola Wilson (Reading) and…Read More >
