Caroline Archer-Parré is Professor of Typography and Co-director of the Centre for Printing History & Culture at Birmingham City University / University of Birmingham, and Chair of the Baskerville Society and Print Networks.
She is a serving member of the Virtual Museum of Printing and the Printing Historical Society. She is Co-Investigator of the AHRC-funded project, ‘Small Performances: investigating the typographic punches of John Baskerville through heritage science and practice-based research’.
With an interest in typographic history from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, Caroline has published widely. She is the author of three books, including The Kynoch Press 1876-1981: the anatomy of a printing house (2000), Tart Cards: London’s illicit advertising art (2003) and Paris Underground (2005). With Malcolm Dick she has co-edited John Baskerville: Art and Industry of the Enlightenment (2017), Pen, Print and Communication in the Eighteenth Century (2020) and James Watt, 1736-1819: Culture, Innovation and Enlightenment (2020).
She is also General Editor for the Printing History & Culture series, published by Peter Lang. Caroline contributes to numerous journals and writes regularly for the trade and academic press.
