#worldcupofprintinghistory

printerJim Hamilton runs our Twitter account (@MoPrinting). He’s also a soccer fan. So he came up with the idea of a series of printing history milestones in the countries participating in the tournament. What started out as a light-hearted Twitter exercise to promote historical figures like John Baskerville and Alois Senefelder took a serious turn as he uncovered printing’s ties to religion, colonialism, war, slavery, revolution, and censorship. On the other hand, he made some nice connections with printing museums around the world. And if you’ve misplaced your incunabula, well, you just might get a clue to their whereabouts in Jim’s World Cup (of Printing History).

And check out the Twitter feed!

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