# Event Details - **Event Name**: Inhuming and exhuming: Baskerville’s death, burial, and post-mortem life - **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 03 Nov, 2025 at 05:30 pm – Mon, 03 Nov, 2025 at 06:30 pm - **Event Description**: We are delighted to announce the Chris Upton Memorial Lecture 2025 by Professor Caroline Archer-ParréAbout this EventSupported by the Friends of Birmingham Archives and Heritage, the Chris Upton Memorial Lecture will be given by Professor Caroline Archer-Parré.Baskerville, with its well-considered design and elegant proportions is one of the world’s most widely used and influential typefaces. It was created by John Baskerville (1707–75) of Birmingham, an eighteenth-century typographer, printer, and industrialist; an Enlightenment figure with a worldwide reputation who changed the course of type design. But while printing historians have lauded Baskerville for his contributions to the trade, he is popularly remembered for his unusual will, unconventional burial, and extraordinary post-mortem life. It is a story which has been retold over the course of 250 years, and which has contributed to the making of Baskerville’s erroneous reputation and his incorrect labelling as an atheist. This talk looks at the evidence of Baskerville's death and burial and reappraises the facts surrounding his post-mortem activities to correct the misapprehensions which surround Baskerville and to reassess him as a Deist rather than atheist.Caroline Archer-Parré is Professor of Typography and Co-director of the Centre for Printing History & Culture at Birmingham City University / University of Birmingham, and Chair of the Baskerville Society. She is Co-Investigator of the AHRC-funded project,‘Small Performances: investigating the typographic punches of John Baskerville through heritage science and practice-based research’. With an interest in typographic history from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, Caroline has published widely. She is the author of three books, including The Kynoch Press 1876-1981: the anatomy of a printing house (2000), Tart Cards: London’s illicit advertising art (2003) and Paris Underground (2005). With Malcolm Dick she has co-edited John Baskerville: Art and Industry of the Enlightenment (2017) Pen, Print and Communication in the Eighteenth Century (2020) and James Watt, 1736-1819: Culture, Innovation and Enlightenment (2020).Doors open at 5pm and the lecture will begin at 5.30pm. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/birmingham/inhuming-and-exhuming-baskerville’s-death-burial-and-post-mortem-life/100001710554236769 - **Event Categories**: art, workshops, literary-art - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Finhuming-and-exhuming-baskervilles-death-burial-and-post-mortem-life-tickets-1710554236769 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: Birmingham - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: Heritage Learning Space, Level 4, Library of Birmingham, Centenary Square, Birmingham, B1 2ND - **lat**: 52.47975779999999 - **long**: -1.908435 - **full address**: Heritage Learning Space, Level 4, Library of Birmingham, Centenary Square, Birmingham, B1 2ND, United Kingdom ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: Birmingham Archives & Collections (Wolfson Centre) (https://allevents.in/org/birmingham-archives-and-collections-wolfson-centre/18620273) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/2520282a123fe15af333cc72c438b6307b484d4660dad912fc37ef113425ded6-rimg-w596-h290-dcd6d7d5-gmir.jpg?v=1760632130 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/a46dc61123034d33390108e6a4394ee15a96de035840c2bf691facf5cb0977b2-rimg-w400-h400-dcf7f7ee-gmir.jpg?v=1760632130 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Mon, 03 Nov, 2025 at 05:30 pm - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** Heritage Learning Space, Level 4, Library of Birmingham, Centenary Square, Birmingham, B1 2ND, United Kingdom - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 0 up to 0 GBP - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** Birmingham Archives & Collections (Wolfson Centre) - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** art, workshops, literary-art - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Inhuming and exhuming: Baskerville’s death, burial, and post-mortem life ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Inhuming and exhuming: Baskerville’s death, burial, and post-mortem life", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/2520282a123fe15af333cc72c438b6307b484d4660dad912fc37ef113425ded6-rimg-w596-h290-dcd6d7d5-gmir.jpg?v=1760632130", "startDate": "2025-11-03", "endDate": "2025-11-03", "url": "https://allevents.in/birmingham/inhuming-and-exhuming-baskerville’s-death-burial-and-post-mortem-life/100001710554236769", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Heritage Learning Space, Level 4, Library of Birmingham, Centenary Square, Birmingham, B1 2ND", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "Broad Street", "postalCode": "B1 2ND", "addressLocality": "Birmingham", "addressRegion": "EN", "addressCountry": "GB" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "52.47975779999999", "longitude": "-1.908435" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "We are delighted to announce the Chris Upton Memorial Lecture 2025 by Professor Caroline Archer-Parré", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "GBP", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-05", "availabilityEnds": "2025-11-03", "validFrom": "2026-04-05", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/birmingham/inhuming-and-exhuming-baskerville’s-death-burial-and-post-mortem-life/100001710554236769" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "GBP", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-05", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-05", "url": "https://allevents.in/birmingham/inhuming-and-exhuming-baskerville’s-death-burial-and-post-mortem-life/100001710554236769", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Birmingham Archives & Collections (Wolfson Centre)", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/birmingham-archives-and-collections-wolfson-centre/18620273", "description": "The Wolfson Centre for Archival Research is the reading room of Birmingham Archives & Collections at the Library of Birmingham. 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