Paul W. Nash

The 2025 number of the Journal of the Printing Historical Society has just been published. Members should receive their copies this week. Hurrah!

I am talking about Gutenberg and early type-manufacture (and The Catholicon) in Oxford on Thursday evening. If anyone would like a zoom link it will be available from the Society's Secretary (contact via the website). #OxfordBibliographicalSociety

The latest Journal of the Printing Historical Society is out. This number is a special to mark the ninetieth birthday of our President, Michael Twyman. More details at printinghistoricalsociety.org.uk

Here's a story on BBC Radio Norfolk about the Norwich Printing Museum and its search for a new home. It includes an interview with me ... bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@TheMorganics @NorwichPrinting @Tisi55 Thank you, Mrs M. We will look into it!

Norwich Printing Museum is looking to recruit a small number of new members for its Board of Trustees. Could you help us? Further details here👇 norwichprintingmuseum.co.uk/join-our-trust…

We have just won a £5 donation for Norwich Printing Museum in the @easyuk Stamp card prize draw. It may not be a vast sum, but every little helps. You can help us too, here : easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/norwich…

@ETreharne @ami_alamanda @cesta_stanford Fascinating. I would certainly like a link when the moment comes ....

Making Type. A brilliant opportunity to spend a day immersed in the history, heritage and legacy of type. @NorwichPrinting Museum is holding a Study Day on 2 September at its museum in Blickling Hall, Norfolk. ◉︎ Visit norwichprintingmuseum.co.uk/events/type-st… for more information

How did printers' types evolve from metal objects to patterns of light and finally to digital letterforms? Find out (with Paul W. Nash and Jeremy Tankard) at the Norwich Printing Museum Study Day on 2 September 2024. norwichprintingmuseum.co.uk/events #printing #type #jeremytankard

Were the first European printing types really cast in a matrix struck with a punch? Find out at the Norwich Printing Museum Study Day on 2 September 2024. norwichprintingmuseum.co.uk/events #printing #type #Gutenberg #PaulWNash #printingpress #JackNorfolk #typefounding #incunabula

Making Type. A brilliant opportunity to spend a day immersed in the history, heritage and legacy of type. @NorwichPrinting Museum is holding a Study Day on 2 September at its museum in Blickling Hall, Norfolk. ◉︎ Visit norwichprintingmuseum.co.uk/events/type-st… for more information

How did the earliest European printers make their type? Find out at the Norwich Printing Museum Study Day on 2 September 2024. norwichprintingmuseum.co.uk/events #printing #type #Gutenberg #BlicklingHall #PaulWNash #printingpress #norwich #printinghistory #typefounding #incunabula

How was printing type first made? Find out at the Norwich Printing Museum Study Day on 2 September 2024. norwichprintingmuseum.co.uk/events

We are holding a Type Study Day at the Norwich Printing Museum on 2 September. Here is a flier ...

Our volunteer compositor set the type by hand for this wonderful poster as a homage to The Beatles 🎵 You can buy one from our online shop for only £10 + P&P! Every poster purchased helps us raise much needed funds to look after our collection ❤️ norwichprintmuseum.sumupstore.com/product/for-th…

@plantinmoretus Some French printing manuals of the eighteenth century refer to dogskin as the best leather for covering ink-balls, but it was used rarely, if at all. Any soft leather could be used, and sheep was most common in England.

Did you know that - contradictory to common belief & #earlymodern manuals - the printer’s ink balls used in the Officina Plantiniana were not made out of dogskin? The ledgers in the family’s business archive only mentions the frequent purchases of cowskin for their dabbers!

@Lignedescience @MusImprim @NorwichPrinting @PrintingMuseum @VMoPrinting @amberley_museum Not a linocut but a stereotype, at this date no-doubt cast with a lead-based alloy using a flong. Norwich Printing Museum has a few examples ...

Cc @MusImprim @NorwichPrinting @PrintingMuseum @VMoPrinting @amberley_museum

⭐️ Come and see our team @TheForumNorwich for an exciting volunteer recruitment and celebration event! The Give it a Go! Volunteering Extravaganza will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Volunteers’ Week. 👉 Friday 7th June from 10:30am to 4pm #VolunteerNorfolk

Dr Paul Nash talking about the original Wipers Times editorial office in the Ypres Ramparts, pictured on the dustcover of the 1917 bound edition. Captain Higgins’ photograph of the same casemate when A Company of 2/Suffolk moved into it in July 1915. #WipersTimes