International Print Biennale

Printing and Reading in Historic Newcastle: A Walking Tour

24 Sep 16

Starting Point: St Nicholas Cathedral Square (Mosley Street), Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1DF
 

11am-12pm
 

PLEASE NOTE THAT BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL AS PLACES ARE LIMITED - PLEASE CALL NORTHERN PRINT TO RESERVE YOUR FREE PLACE ON 0191 2617000

 

This hour-long walking tour explores the geography and history of print and reading in Newcastle. By 1800, Newcastle was a nationally-significant printing centre in England, but little is known of the city’s reading heritage. Starting at the site of Thomas Bewick’s workshop, we will retrace the city’s lost sites of printing and reading, and discover the reading and shopping habits of individual residents, from the sixteenth to the late eighteenth centuries. What were readers reading in early modern Newcastle? Who owned, sold, read, made or performed printed text and music in early modern Newcastle?

FREE

 

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