After a turbulent decade, a resurgent Afghanistan seemed to enjoy a period of stability in the early 1930s. The infrastructure was being str...
Printing museums across the world have become success stories but it is not plain sailing always. The story of the Melbourne Museum of Print...
Which print anniversary should Indians celebrate? There are many dates and years which could be considered but the options need to be evalua...
On 26 November, print historian Murali Ranganathan will talk about the print culture in the Parsi community going back to 250 years. His foc...
The story of how the first printing press in Egypt became the core of a printing museum housed in a global institution
The story of a printing museum set up by a regional newspaper in Greece which celebrates the ancient tradition of writing and typography
The amazing journey of a Canadian print company from refurbishing printing presses to establishing a world-class printing museum
How does one build a world-class printing museum from scratch? For the answer, look no further than the story of The Museum of Printing. It ...
How does a printing press make the long journey from being the leading publishing house in the sixteenth century to a world heritage museum ...
The printing history series in PrintWeek enters its seventh year with this anniversary issue. One of the objectives of this series is to evo...
Jatindra Kumar Nayak has played a prominent role in a variety of literary and educational institutions in the state of Odisha and his transl...
Large parts of Africa and Asia share a common experience of colonization, exploitation and impoverishment. They also share histories of prin...
An exciting new generation of print historians has emerged as we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century. Bristling with new idea...
Traversing the overlapping print worlds of Portuguese, Konkani and English, Rochelle Pinto has been studying how colonialism and its afterma...
How a librarian from pre-independence India recast himself as print historian
How a career in type design led to the making of a type historian
Print may have reached the shores of India accidentally in 1556 (the original destination of the printing press was Ethiopia); it may have h...
Printing came to Bombay in 1674 at the initiative of an Indian businessman. A hundred years later, the city had its commercial printing pres...