Henningham Family Press

About a Word

By - Julie Rafalski
Posted on February, 23, 2010

Names, smells or tastes that we remember from childhood and have since kept locked away somewhere in the vast storehouse of memories sometimes appear suddenly, like people who we take to be strangers before we slowly begin to recognize them. Coming across a name or a smell is the perfect recipe for a Proustian madeleine

London Word Festival Interview

By - David
Posted on February, 19, 2010May, 12, 2011

You can read about our preperations for this year’s festival on the LWF website here

Settees, Serenades and Public Spheres, David Barnes

By - David Barnes
Posted on February, 1, 2010

The other week I gave a lecture (the subject of which is not the subject of this blog) at the Universettee. As its name suggests, the Universettee is interested in shifting the seat of learning from the academy to the home – university to universettee. It’s a university of the comfy chair, and takes place

‘Chip Shop’ at London Word Festival March 2010: several dates announced

By - Ping Henningham
Posted on February, 1, 2010May, 12, 2011

Some of you may remember the ballad we printed live with Jon Bilbrough at the London Word Festival 2009 . This year we have created a new show called ‘Chip Shop’, featuring a fully functioning mobile screenprinting workshop. “Built from chip-board and replicating a full-size chippy, The Chip Shop is a fully functioning temporary screen

Finsbury Art Festival: Sat 27th Feb 11am-4pm

By - Ping Henningham
Posted on February, 1, 2010

On Saturday February 27th, from 11am to 4pm, we’ll be at the Finsbury Art Festival. Our little contribution to this positive cornucopia of fun things to do in the Art Zone will be showing off the pamphlet stitch. This simple little stitch, used for centuries by anyone from teeth-grinding political radicals to quaint little crafts-people,

Schools out. Berlin December 2009

By - Eddie
Posted on January, 4, 2010January, 4, 2010

On Friday I finished an 8 week block of German Language learning and with that my head for the first time in two months has begun to clear a little to formulate a few thoughts. Last year when I began to try and learn the German language I looked at a few course introductions on

Electronic Book Lovers vs. The Page-Sniffers

By - David
Posted on December, 19, 2009January, 4, 2010

Laurence fondles the leather-effect binding of his complete works of Shakespeare, ‘a part of our heritage’, simultaneously using the volumes to display his refinement and his guest’s lack of taste. If the book goes digital, perhaps it makes this act of snobbery performed in Mike Leigh’s ‘Abigail’s Party’ less likely. A couple of new technical

A Drifting Country and a Sea in London

By - Julie Rafalski
Posted on December, 8, 2009

Dreams often allow us to do things that are impossible in waking life: hovering in mid air, walking across Antarctica, becoming a character in a film, sipping tea with a famous actor, sharing jokes with a relative who has been dead for years, speaking unknown languages flawlessly, travelling to places not found on any map…

‘Sarah Palin’ is an anagram of ‘Sharia Plan’

By - David
Posted on December, 8, 2009December, 8, 2009

Sometimes you look at a name and you just know there is an anagram in there. ‘Tiger Woods’ also helps us ponder the danger of hubris with ‘I god’s tower’ and the inevitability of decay with ‘grows to die’, much like many celebrity careers.

The nth Convention (second edition) release

By - David
Posted on December, 1, 2009December, 1, 2009

We are very pleased to announce the publication of the second book by ‘The nth Convention’ testing, among other things, just how different a second edition can be from the first. This book is another manifestation of the work ‘The nth Convention’ have been undertaking since a collaboration in Leipzig in 2005. Conversations held at