INDUSTRY NEWS

Christmas List - Highlighting Author Adrian Phillips

4 DECEMBER 2024

Though today he is hailed as one of Britain’s greatest leaders, throughout his career, Winston Churchill was an outsider, accumulating a reputation for bad judgement and untrustworthiness. Only risk-takers and fellow outsiders would back him – but these strong and often feuding personalities proved to be vital to his decision-making in war and peace alike.

Winston’s Bandits | Biteback Publishing

Christmas List - Highlighting Author Margarette Lincoln

4 DECEMBER 2024

A colourful account of women’s health, beauty, and cosmetic aids, from stays and corsets to today’s viral trends

Victorian women ate arsenic to achieve an ideal, pale complexion, while in the 1790s balloon corsets were all the rage, designed to make the wearer appear pregnant. Women of the eighteenth century applied blood from a black cat’s tail to problem skin, while doctors in the 1880s promoted woollen underwear to keep colds at bay. Beautification and the pursuit of health may seem all-consuming today, but their history is long and fantastically varied.

KENT'S UNTOLD HISTORY - Author Michael Fairley lists his books for Christmas

4 DECEMBER 2024

After retiring from the label industry some four years ago, Freeman Michael Fairley now spends his time as an author and historian, researching and writing about what life in Kent was really like at different periods during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Over this time he has created a series of books on Kent’s Untold History. The first six titles in this series have now been published. The aim of the books is to provide answers to the many questions about historic Kent life. Questions such as:

Portrait unveiled of Past Master Helen Esmonde

4 DECEMBER 2024

A portrait of Past Master Helen Esmonde, the first woman in six centuries to be Master of the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, was unveiled at Stationers’ Hall on Monday evening. The portrait, painted by talented young artist, Ruth Fitton, was commissioned by a group of donors led by the Immediate Past Master Tony Mash. At the ceremony, attended by the donors and Helen’s family, the IPM said, “Tonight we recognise the important step-change in the Company’s life as we celebrate the installation of our first lady Master in 2015’.

Give Your Company the Gift of Inclusion This Christmas

3 DECEMBER 2024

This festive season, Blind Ambition is helping organisations make a meaningful impact with an exclusive offer for Stationers: £200 off our Disability Awareness and Inclusion Training packages.

Christmas List - Highlighting Author Philip Womack

3 DECEMBER 2024

Freeman Philip Womack lists his books for the festive season.

Académie du Vin Library If you are a wine lover this list is for you

3 DECEMBER 2024

Académie du Vin Library was founded in 2019 by two stalwarts in the wine world to publish the best wine writing. Hugh Johnson and Steven Spurrier wanted to republish some classics of the genre. 

Academie Du Vin Library

BOSS Awards 2024 Winners Revealed

2 DECEMBER 2024

The BOSS Federation are delighted to announce the winners for the 2024 BOSS Awards:

Freeman & North American member Katherine Dimancescu publishes her historical illustrated non fiction narratives in the UK

2 DECEMBER 2024

As the festive season unfolds North American Stationer and author Katherine Dimancescu is delighted to share the news that her historical illustrated non-fiction narratives The Forgotten Chapters: My Journey into the Past & Denizens: A Narrative of Captain George Denison and His New England Contemporaries are now available in The United Kingdom via the Hatchards & Foyles bookstores' websites; these represent only two of the UK websites via which prospective readers may find and purchase these works. Both publications are available in The United States via website sources and also in-person via select bookshops and independent shops and businesses in New England and The Midwest.

Christmas List - Highlighting Conway Stewart

2 DECEMBER 2024

Celebrate the season with Conway Stewart’s elegant Christmas Collection. Featuring fountain pens, shimmering inks, and luxurious accessories, these are gifts to be cherished for years to come.

Stationers have a  special Conway Stewart 10% discount

Thediscount code is

Stationers10

 And can be used on any item bought from our website https://conwaystewart.com/

One per customer

Freeman Ann-Marie Miller ACR, Director Codex Conservation Ltd working on historic collections

29 NOVEMBER 2024

It has been a busy few months at Codex Conservation Ltd. We are a book and paper conservation workshop, working with historic collections in London and the South East.

Our current projects include architectural plans of the Royal Albert Hall, a Victorian album of drawings, letters, and musical score, for Ightham Mote funded by the Radcliffe Trust and various volumes for the Freud Museum and the London Library. One of our long running projects is with the Latymer Upper School Archive in Hammersmith.

Since 2019, we have been helping them to stabilise, and make accessible, the oldest manuscripts in their archive, which are mainly historic stationery bindings. They are wonderful examples of English Stationery Bindings from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Weekly update - Leigh Stationers' Academy

29 NOVEMBER 2024

Please see the latest update for Leigh Stationers' Academy

https://leighstationersacademy.org.uk/lsa-latest-news-updates-friday-22-november-2024/