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New Contributions in the Online Database Fil-Dpz – Gema Sancho Monllor
Fil-Dpz is an online watermark database. This article describes its development, including changes in methods used to record and digitise the watermarks, and the associated dictionary of terms used to describe and record the technicalities of paper manufacture.
7 pages, 6 figures
Paper industry review of 2017 – Anon
Our annual round up of mills or paper machines that have closed on the international scene, along with news on UK mills past and present, reported during 2017.
1 page
Paper – Charles Dickens
This article marks the culmination of our project to publish all of the great man’s pieces on paper and related industries. Appropriately enough, this all-encompassing item sees the author give a sweeping history of paper’s development, including the technological innovations necessary for its mass production, ending with a number of recent inventions such as paper boats, paper matches and artificial teeth!
3.5 pages
Wages in the paper trade: Agreement arrived at – Anon
Part of our WWI series. A short report on negotiations undertaken by the Amalgamated Society of Paper-Makers and the National Union of Printing and Paper Workers in late 1917 for a national wage agreement.
0.5 pages
A new list of certified occupations – Anon
Part of our WWI series. Paper, printing and allied trades were of national importance. Workers in these occupations could be exempt from conscription depending upon their age and specific role, as shown in the article, published just over a month before the end of the conflict.
1 page
The substitution of women in the paper-making industry – Anon
Part of our WWI series. One major group to benefit from changes brought about by the Great War was Women, who showed their mettle by undertaking a vast number of roles that up until then had been the exclusive preserve of Men. This item, taken from a Home Office and Board of Trade pamphlet, describes some of the provisions and arrangements made in industry to accommodate women in these new roles.
1 page
Manchester paper merchants and The War: three brothers’ services – Anon
Part of our WWI series. A description of the service exploits of the Mitchell brothers, who were members of Messrs John Mitchell and Sons, Paper Merchants of Clitheroe and Manchester.
1 page, 5 figures
The sale of waste paper: Order by the ministry of munitions – Anon
Part of our WWI series. A very detailed list of the number of waste paper grades that could be collected and sorted for re-use as part of the war effort. Also included is another very short item on the use of waste paper for manufacture of munitions.
1 page
Paper and the Post Office: Part 1 – Wendy Buckle
This exceptionally well-illustrated article shows how the history of paper manufacture has been shown on stamps and other postal history. This first part shows how the general process has been covered by postal authorities around the world.
3 pages, 31 figures
The re-introduction of Whatman Artists’ Papers in the early 1980s – Stephen R. Hill
Whatman has been a name associated with printing, writing and artists’ papers for over two centuries, yet in more recent times they had dropped out of the art sector. This short piece describes their unsuccessful bid to re-engage with artists in the 1980s.
1.5 pages, 3 figures
On the ‘Blueing’ of Paper – Stephen R. Hill
A short rumination on an alternative story to how ‘blueing’ (the addition of blue dye or pigment to counteract yellowness, and so enhance the perception of whiteness) came to be introduced into the paper industry.
0.5 pages
Wartime Rehabilitation through the pages of the Dickinson News – Richard Westwood
A number of the larger companies in the paper industry published ‘house magazines’. This article describes that of John Dickinson & Co., and covers how it was used by the company to rehabilitate and reintegrate staff back into work after demobilisation from WWII.
3 pages, 8 figures
Stephen Adam’s Papermaker – Peter Bower
Stephen Adam (1847-1910) was a stained glass artist. This piece shows ‘The Papermaker’, part of a series on trades produced for the Glasgow City Chambers in the period 1882-1890.
1 page, 1 figure
The Paper used for Ten Drawings charting the progress and defeat of The Spanish Armada through The English Channel in 1588, 1589 Robert Adams (1540–1595) – Peter Bower
A fascinating description of the papers used to produce a series of maps drawn following the defeat of the Armada in 1589. The drawings depict various stages of the battle from the first sighting of the
Spanish off the coast of Cornwall to the fight off Gravelines on the French Coast.
6 pages, 15 figure
Book Reviews Peter Bower
La Marca Invisible Filgranas Papelleras Europeas en Hispanoamerica – José Carlos Balmaceda
A catalogue of European watermarks found in use in Spanish America.
Catalogue of a Collection of 225 watermarks From the 15th-19th Century – Jelle Samshuijzen
A catalogue of watermarks collected by a Dutch rare book dealer, dating from the 15th-19th centuries.
British Bibliography of Paper History and Watermark Studies No 25, 2017 – Daven Chamberlain
Listing of articles concerned with papermaking history and paper conservation published in 2017.
4 pages, 109 items
Addendum to British Bibliography No.24, 2016 (see Quarterly 103) – Daven Chamberlain
2 items
The Quarterly Index Nos 101-104 – Terry Wells
The index for 2017 is arranged in eight categories: Articles by author; Articles by title; Book reviews; General index; Illustrations; Papermakers; Paper mills; Watermarks. The Watermarks index is further divided into those that are illustrated and those that are mentioned in the text.
11 pages
