Beatrice Warde's VE Day Diary - A reading by Jessica Glaser 

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Beatrice Warde (1900-69) is best known as publicity manager of the Monotype Corporation, and as the ‘First Lady of Typography’. During World War Two she became an anti-Fascist campaigner founding the Anglo-American book exchange, ‘Books Across the Sea’ to foster cultural understanding through books and in so doing counter complacent attitudes towards the Nazi threat. She was also a diarist and many of her accounts of life in wartime Britain were published in Bombed But Unbeaten: Excerpts from the War Commentary of Beatrice L. Warde and in the New York Herald Tribune Book Review, Readers Guide. This presentation is a reading of her unpublished VE day entry, written as letter to her mother, the New York journalist May Lamberton Becker (1873-1958) and to other American friends.

Jessica Glaser is an associate Senior Lecturer in Graphic Communication at the University of Wolverhampton and partner in Bright Pink Communication Design. Jessica is working on a PhD examining the circumstances of Beatrice Warde as First Lady of Typography. She has written a number of books on design and typography, including The Graphic Design Exercise Book and is a regular contributor to conferences.

The reading will be approximately 30 minutes long followed by questions from the audience.

Artsfest 2020

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