Past, Present and Future: Printing in York
Event details
Printing in York has a long and distinctive history. Join Helen Smith, Director of Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print, to learn about Europe's earliest wallpaper, how a book can be a magpie, entrepreneurial widows, printing on ice, type made of Viking wood and much more.
As well as learning about York's first 500 years of printing and bookselling, and finding out about the City's lively current printing and printmaking scene, discover how Helen and her colleagues are planning to make old-fashioned print endure for another half millennium.
Attendees will take away a unique printed souvenir of the occasion.
Find out more about Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print.
Image credit: Alex Holland, University of York
About the speaker
Helen Smith is Professor of Renaissance Literature at the University of York. She is an expert in early books and printing and a leader in practice-led research, with a passion for letterpress.
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