INDUSTRY NEWS

Sellout Trade lunch raises over £20,000

6 DECEMBER 2024

The 20th Stationers’ Christmas Trade lunch was a sellout, with 292 guests attending from the design, digital, newspaper, office products, packaging, paper and print industries.

More than £20,000 was raised for Children In Need and the Company’s charities.

Liveryman Lucy Denton writes about Stationers' Hall in Country Life magazine

6 DECEMBER 2024

Click on the link below to read the article about Stationers' Hall, writen by Liveryman Lucy Denton.

Country Life  - December 2024 issue

with kind permission from County Life magazine www.countrylife.co.uk

Christmas List - Highlighting Rebel Stationery

5 DECEMBER 2024

Christmas List Don’t Read That, Read This!

5 DECEMBER 2024

An independent print and digital magazine founded by a Young Stationer, LONDNR seeks to thrill the true omnivore – the adventurous and literary Londoner who is bored to sobs by repetitive social media and divisive news cycles. We’re bringing back good old-fashioned fun.

https://londnr.substack.com/8b688b19

Christmas List - Highlighting Chris Andrews Publications

5 DECEMBER 2024

Liveryman Chris Andrews has published scenic calendars for over 40 years and this year's selection covers Oxford, The Cotswolds and The Channel Islands.

Christmas List from Peter Bellerby - The Globemakers The Curious Story of an Ancient Craft

5 DECEMBER 2024

The beautiful illustrated story of our globe and the creations it has inspired, told from the only truly bespoke globemakers in the world, Bellerby & Co. Peter Bellerby is the founder of Bellerby & Co. Globemakers, the world’s only truly bespoke makers of globes.

His team of skilled craftspeople make exquisite terrestrial, celestial and planetary globes for customers around the world. The story began after his attempt to find a special globe for his father’s 80th birthday. Failing to find anything suitable, he decided to make one himself which took him on an extraordinary journey of rediscovering this forgotten craft.

(www.bellerbyandco.com)

Christmas List - Highlighting Author Adrian Phillips

4 DECEMBER 2024

Though today he is hailed as one of Britain’s greatest leaders, throughout his career, Winston Churchill was an outsider, accumulating a reputation for bad judgement and untrustworthiness. Only risk-takers and fellow outsiders would back him – but these strong and often feuding personalities proved to be vital to his decision-making in war and peace alike.

Winston’s Bandits | Biteback Publishing

Christmas List - Highlighting Author Margarette Lincoln

4 DECEMBER 2024

A colourful account of women’s health, beauty, and cosmetic aids, from stays and corsets to today’s viral trends

Victorian women ate arsenic to achieve an ideal, pale complexion, while in the 1790s balloon corsets were all the rage, designed to make the wearer appear pregnant. Women of the eighteenth century applied blood from a black cat’s tail to problem skin, while doctors in the 1880s promoted woollen underwear to keep colds at bay. Beautification and the pursuit of health may seem all-consuming today, but their history is long and fantastically varied.

KENT'S UNTOLD HISTORY - Author Michael Fairley lists his books for Christmas

4 DECEMBER 2024

After retiring from the label industry some four years ago, Freeman Michael Fairley now spends his time as an author and historian, researching and writing about what life in Kent was really like at different periods during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Over this time he has created a series of books on Kent’s Untold History. The first six titles in this series have now been published. The aim of the books is to provide answers to the many questions about historic Kent life. Questions such as:

Portrait unveiled of Past Master Helen Esmonde

4 DECEMBER 2024

A portrait of Past Master Helen Esmonde, the first woman in six centuries to be Master of the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, was unveiled at Stationers’ Hall on Monday evening. The portrait, painted by talented young artist, Ruth Fitton, was commissioned by a group of donors led by the Immediate Past Master Tony Mash. At the ceremony, attended by the donors and Helen’s family, the IPM said, “Tonight we recognise the important step-change in the Company’s life as we celebrate the installation of our first lady Master in 2015’.

Give Your Company the Gift of Inclusion This Christmas

3 DECEMBER 2024

This festive season, Blind Ambition is helping organisations make a meaningful impact with an exclusive offer for Stationers: £200 off our Disability Awareness and Inclusion Training packages.

Christmas List - Highlighting Author Philip Womack

3 DECEMBER 2024

Freeman Philip Womack lists his books for the festive season.