Bookplate Stories: Christina Frances Hicks
This post is part of a series of stories written by Liz West, Fellow in Ephemera Studies, about the Amoret Tanner bookplate collection. Read more here · Story one Aiming High ♥ This plate was created for Christina Frances Hicks (1885-1935), the daughter of Edward Hicks, the Bishop of Lincoln. The Latin inscription, visible on […]
Bookplate Stories: Ephraim McDowel Cosgrave
This post is part of a series of stories written by Liz West, Fellow in Ephemera Studies, about the Amoret Tanner bookplate collection. Read more here · Story one ‘A bookplate is to the book what a collar is to the dog’ ♦ Ephraim McDowel Cosgrave (18 July 1853 – 17 February 1925) was an eminent Irish physician, antiquary […]
Bookplate Stories: Gertrude Edlemann
This post is part of a series of stories written by Liz West, Fellow in Ephemera Studies, about the Amoret Tanner bookplate collection. Read more here · Story one Mr and Mrs Edlemann ♠ If, as George Orwell proposed, the English have ‘an addiction to hobbies and spare-time occupations’, then nowhere is this is more […]
Bookplate stories: Mary Anne Robb 1895
This post is part of a series of stories written by Liz West, Fellow in Ephemera Studies, about the Amoret Tanner bookplate collection. Read more here · Story one Mrs Robb’s Bonnet ♣ Mary Anne (or Ann) Robb (1829-1912) was a botanist, horticulturalist, artist and plant collector. Her botanical drawings are held in the library […]
Fellowship in Ephemera studies
We were delighted to appoint Dr Liz West as our first Fellow in Ephemera Studies. Liz decided to work on book-related ephemera to align with interests and priorities in our Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing. Liz worked with the Amoret Tanner collection of bookplates, housed in the Centre for Ephemera Studies (TYP/CES/AT). This uncatalogued […]
Marie Neurath: picturing science
Marie Neurath: picturing science is the digital legacy of an exhibition at House of Illustration in 2019, curated by Sue Walker and her team, as part of an AHRC-funded project. It shows material from the Otto and Marie Neurath Collection, as well as resources for young people based on this.
Ed Fella: Exit Level Design, 1985–2012
This exhibition ran between 31 January –25 March 2022. This exhibition curated by Rick Poynor showed work of the American graphic designer Edward Fella. For 30 years, Fella (born 1938) worked as a designer, commercial artist and illustrator in Detroit, Michigan. In the second phase of his career – the focus of this exhibition – […]
Looking at women looking at themselves being looked at
This exhibition was open until 9 September 2022. An exhibition explores the concept of the male gaze in twentieth-century illustration through the female representation in Charles Mozley’s work. Cătălina Zlotea, a PhD researcher, analyses the work of the prolific mid-century British illustrator Charles Mozley (1914–1991) through a contemporary lens. At a moment when gender dynamics […]