The two-day conference will take place from 13-14 September 2018 at Winterbourne House and Garden in Edgbaston, and will coincide with the centenary of the Representation of the People Act, which first granted women aged over 30 the right to vote.  

“Women have always played a pivotal role in the production, distribution and consumption of print,” said organiser and print historian Professor Caroline Archer-Parré. “This interdisciplinary conference seeks to recover the lives, work and impact of women who have been active in all aspects of printing and print culture, and to assess those contributions that may have been neglected or undervalued.”

Archer-Parré is calling for 200 word abstracts of 20 minute papers to be submitted by 15 November.

Potential themes include: women in the printing and book trades; women as printers and publishers; printing applications and innovations; print and feminism; and type and typographic design.

The papers will also be considered for inclusion in a new book series, Printing History & Culture, to be published by Peter Lang.

Email womeninprint2018@gmail.com to make a submission, or for more information.