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Letterpress Printing: Past, Present, Future brings together scholars, curators, collectors and printers to assess the current state of letterpress printing. It acknowledges the decline of letterpress as a commercial printing technique and considers the risks this poses for letterpress’s future.

Caroline Archer-Parré is Professor of Typography, Co-director of the Centre for Printing History & Culture at Birmingham City University, and Chairman of the Baskerville Society. With an interest in typographic history from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, Caroline has published widely. She is the author of three books, contributes to numerous journals and edited volumes, and writes regularly for the trade and academic press.

James Mussell is currently Professor of Nineteenth-Century Print Cultures at the University of Leeds and Deputy Director of the Centre for the Comparative History of Print (Centre CHoP). He is the author of Science, Time, and Space in the Late Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press (2007) and The Nineteenth-Century Press in the Digital Age (2012). He is one of the editors of the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018), , a pioneering digital resource, and the books W.T. Stead: Newspaper Revolutionary (2012) and A Pioneer of Connection: Recovering the Life and Work of Oliver Lodge (2020).