Printing Historical Society facts for kids
The Printing Historical Society (or PHS) is a learned society devoted to the study of the history of printing, in all its forms.
History
The Society was founded in London in 1964 by a group of teachers, scholars, students of design and bibliography, librarians, professional printers and amateur enthusiasts, notably James Mosley, James Moran, John Dreyfus, Michael Turner, Berthold Wolpe, David Chambers and Michael Twyman. At the time, and to some degree ever since, the PHS had close connections with the St Bride Library (then called the St Bride Printing Library) and the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading. The PHS was the first society to be instituted specifically for the study of printing history, and has been followed by several others, notably the American Printing History Association.
Aims
The aims of the PHS are stated to be "to foster an interest in the history of printing and encourage both the study and the preservation of printing machinery, records, and equipment of historical value". In 2016 it subsumed the National Printing Heritage Trust, and added to its aims to raise funds to preserve printing equipment and archives, and to lobby for the creation of a national printing museum for the U.K.
See also
- Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
