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Henrietta Lockhart, Throwing Light on the Edwardians:  a collection of printing blocks from Brookes Ward lighting company In 2023, Winterbourne House and Garden received a donation of hundreds of printing blocks depicting components from light fittings.  Wrapped in paper packages, many of the blocks had not seen the light of day since the 1920s.  With the help of a University intern, we have now sorted and researched this collection, which gives an insight into the way the Edwardians illuminated their homes. Henrietta has been Curator at Winterbourne House and Garden since 2016.  She was previously Curator of History at Birmingham Museums Trust and Fine Art Consultant at Colley Ison Fine Art.

Jessica Glaser, Image and self identity: a case study of Beatrice Warde Image making became a necessary commercial skill in the twentieth-century; female literary figures in particular, prized and cultivated their identities as valued professional assets. These circumstances evolved alongside developments in the printing industry. Beatrice Warde, known as the First Lady of Typography, was a leading figure in the printing industry for whom image making was an important skill that she used widely. This talk explores examples of Warde’s image making for professional success drawing on illustrations and photographs from the Stanley Morison collection, Cambridge University Library and the Beatrice Warde Archive, Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham. Jessica is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Wolverhampton. Her PHD studies (BCU) reappraised the life and work of Beatrice Warde. Jessica has written books on design and typography, including The Graphic Design Exercise Book. She is a regular contributor to conferences and has articles published by online magazine, Smashing. She has contributed a biography of Beatrice Warde to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and her chapter on Warde’s anglo-American book exchange, Books Across the Sea, is part of Women in Print 1, published by Peter Lang.