Recipients of PHS Research Grants 2024 announced

We had a good pool of eight applicants, ranging from postgraduate students and academics to retired printers. We have agreed to award the following grants, totalling £1,996: £500 to David Armes for research on the tipoRenesansa collection of letterpress printing equipment in Ljubljana; £470 to Ian Dooley for research on the manufacture of printing ink in the early twentieth century; £426 to Adam Smith for research on radical print networks in eighteenth-century Sheffield and York; £200 to Fabian Vega for research on the Guarani missions press in eighteenth-century Paraguay; £400 to Helen Williams for research to create a series of local histories of the Scottish printing industry.

— Giles Mandelbrote