Newspaper excerpt showing example of Baskerville typography

Birmingham As Seen Through Its Display Typography

Date: 3 November 2025
Time: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
In-person at Winterbourne House & Garden, 58 Edgbaston Park Road, Birmingham, B15 2RT
Third-party event
Newspaper excerpt showing example of Baskerville typography

A series of talks commemorating 250 years since the death of the influential printer John Baskerville. 

Looking through the lens of Birmingham’s printed ephemera from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Dr David Osbaldestin will be presenting a range of interconnecting narratives told through the display typefaces and jobbing printers of the city.

[Tickets cost £7.50-£15.50. Book now.]