English

A complete printing press and bookbinding workshop dating from the mid-nineteenth century currently resides in the School of English. During the latter half of the twentieth century this facility was used regularly in teaching, to demonstrate the complete process of book production from paper-making to final product. Some of the apparatus was originally built for local publishers and have been used to produce many important tracts, books and leaflets.

The history of publishing and print culture is an active area of research across the Faculty of Arts, including in the Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science.