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Presentation at 18th International Conference of Conservation-Restoration Studies

9 May 2025 James Black has presented at the 18 th  International Conference of Conservation-Restoration Studies  held in Split, Croatia on 9th May 2025. His presentation summarised the development of Archetype Publications and...

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New North America distributer

2 May 2025 Archetype titles are from now on available to purchase from ISD for our customers in North America. ISD is a full-service book distribution company focusing exclusively on scholarly and specialist books.  Our titles are no longer available via ACC. ...

Turner Medal of the Colour Group awarded to Dominique Cardon

21 April 2025 Dominique Cardon is being awarded the  Turner Medal by the Colour Group (GB), the British section of the International Colour Association.  The Turner Medal has been awarded every two years since 1998 by the Colour Group (Great Britain) and recognises distinguished artists or art historians. Dominique Cardon  has been selected as recipient of the Turner Medal 2025 for her...

Easter break

11 April 2025 Our book manager Shahid Siddiqui is currently on annual leave. We have therefore limited capacity to send out orders. Please expect that some orders will only be shipped after 21st April. Thank you for understanding....

Office closure

20 December 2024 Our office building will be closed from 21st December 2024 until 3rd January 2025.  We are wishing you a wonderful hoilday period and a good start into the new year!...

Review of 'The Pigments of British Medieval Illuminators' in AMARC

28 October 2024 Mito Matsumaru  has reviewed the title 'The Pigments of British Medieval Illuminators' by Richard Gameson in  Newsletter of the Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections (AMARC)  Issue 83 October 2024. Please see full published review below. This book is undoubtedly ‘the first comprehensive publication on British medieval illuminators’...

New Autumn 2024 Archetype Publications Catalogue

9 October 2024 Our Autumn 2024 catalogue is out now. You can download it here or flip through it online . ...

ICRI Conference 2024

5 September 2024 Thursday, 10th October 2024 10am Join ICRI for a one day event focused on  Conservation: Approaches to Sustainability  at the Ulster Museum located in the Botanic Gardens, Belfast. This conference will bring together experts in the field to discuss innovative strategies for preserving our cultural and natural heritage. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to network with...

Review of 'The Pigments of British Medieval Illuminators' in the Journal of the Institute of Conservation

5 June 2024 Marinita Stiglitz has reviewed the title 'The Pigments of British Medieval Illuminators' by Richard Gameson. We have copied in a part of her review below. You can find the full review in the latest issue of   Journal of the Institute of Conservation . "... This unprecedented publication explores the richness of manuscripts and their pigments in medieval Britain and what they can tell us...

AIC Publication Award

11 April 2024 Scientific Studies of Pigments in Chinese Paintings  by Dr. Blythe McCarthy and Dr. Jennifer Giaccai has received the AIC 2024 Publication Award  for excellence in an article or book on conservation, along with  Properties of Plastics: A Guide for Conservators by Thea van Oosten. We are congratulating the editors, authors and others who contributed to this publication for...

Discounted titles on colour, dyes & pigments

1 March 2024 To coincide with the World Book Day* in the UK and Ireland, we are offering selected Archetype titles related to colour, pigments and dyes for sale at a 20% discount. Please use the discount code SPRING on 7th March 2024.   Art of all Colours (£32.50) £26  details Artists’ Pigments Volume 1  (£95.00) £76  details ...

New Year - new publications

2 January 2024 We hope you had a good start to the new year! You can reach us again by phone and visit us at One Birdcage Walk, London. We are working on new exciting publications in 2024 and look forward to sharing details with you soon!...

Merry Christmas

20 December 2023 All of us at Archetype send you season's greetings and our best wishes to you for the holidays!...

Office closure

18 December 2023 Unfortunately our office building has now closed. We are therefore unable to send any orders that have been made after Friday 15th December. We will do our best to send out all orders made during the Holiday period swiftly in the new year. The office will re-open on 2nd January.  We are unable to answer office phone calls but can be contacted by email. ...

Big Sale of Titles on Dyes

10 February 2023 With the upcoming publication of Dyes in History and Archaeology 37/40 we are having a big sale of previous DHA titles and other titles on Dyes. Please see the titles and discount prices below. To benefit from this limited offer  use the discount code DYES  at the checkout by 7  March 2023 Diversity of Dyes £55 to £35 Dyes from Nature £55 to...

Delays to destinations outside Europe due to a cyber incident at Royal Mail

31 January 2023 Unfortunately we are experiencing a delay in sending out packages by normal mail to destinations outside Europe as the Post Office in the UK has suffered a cyber incident. You can find more information from the Royal Mail here. We will advise customers directly and post an update on the website as soon as this situation has been resolved. If you have any questions please let us know....

Season's Greetings

22 December 2022 All of us at Archetype send you Season's Greetings, merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah and our best wishes to you for the holidays and the New Year!...

Office closure

19 December 2022 Unfortunately our office building has now closed. We are therefore unable to send any orders that have been made after Friday 16th December before the start of the new year. We will do our best to send out all orders made during the Holiday period swiftly in the new year. ...

IIC Congress 2022

2 September 2022   The 29th Congress will explore how and why conservators respond to, adapt to or lead change. IIC Council and New Zealand Conservators of Cultural Material: Pu Maanaki Kahurangi, have made the congress a hybrid format this year. Anyone attending in-person or online can benefit from a 20% discount on selected Archetype titles. If you have not received the discount code in your...

Spring 2022 Catalogue

28 March 2022 Our Archetype Publications Spring Catalogue is here! You can flip through the catalogue  or download it as a pdf .   Titles may be ordered directly from our website, our London office or via our distributor in the USA. Selected titles are also available from specialisedsuppliers and bookshops. For any enquiries or trade orders please email us at info@arche...

FLASH BOOK SALE (Slightly damaged Archetype titles)

14 March 2022 We are offering some damaged copies of the titles shown below at up to 50% off the regular price. All copies are legible with no missing contents but are discounted due to slightly damaged covers (eg knocked edges), misprinted covers, mis-cut pages etc.  We have a very limited number of each title (often just one copy) so we will be taking orders on a first come first served basis and...

New title on IPM and IAP course

7 February 2022 Fitting in with our newest publication 'Integrated Pest Management for Collections'   International Academic Projects Ltd  is organising two Virtual courses with David Pinniger and Jane Thompson Webb. Integrated Pest Management (22&23 February) You can find more information  here Identification of Insect Pests in Collections (22&23 March) You can find more in...

New Archetype Titles in Spring 2022

10 January 2022 The following forthcoming Archetype titles are due to be published in Spring 2022: Rembrandt Now: Technical Practice, Conservation and Research  (online only) Integrated Pest Management in Collections  (Pest Odyssey 2021) Microbiology and the Conservation of Cultural Heritage Contemporary Issues in Book and Paper Conservation Early Painting in the Northern...

Autumn 2021 Catalogue

4 October 2021 Our Autumn 2021 catalogue has now been published.  You can either download our catalogue here or flip through it online here . You can order the titles on our website or email us at [email protected] for any trade orders....

Discounted: Turner's Later Papers

16 September 2021 We are selling a limited number of copies of Turner's Later Papers by Peter Bower for a discount price.   Turner's Later Papers A Study of the Manufacture, Selection and Use of his Drawing Papers 1820-1851 By Peter Bower  ISBN: 9781854372956 Binding: Paperback Pages: 144 Original Retail Price: £25.00 Archetype Discount Price:...

More books for sale

4 August 2021 We need to make space in our office and are selling more books from our office library including out of print Archetype titles. Please see the list of titles and their prices in GBP below. The books are sold online on a first come, first served basis, we only have one copy of each. If you would like to buy a title please email us at  [email protected] . We will then...

Selling the IIC book shelf books

19 July 2021     In association with IIC we are selling some of the books from the IIC office. Please see the list of titles and their prices in GBP below. The books are sold on a first come, first served basis.  There is only one copy of each. The books are in good condition (with slight shelf wear) but, as shown, 2 books have slight dust jacket tears (DJT) and 2 have minor...

Discount on Artists' Pigments Volumes 1-4

7 July 2021 For one week only, we are discounting the price of our 6 remaining sets of the NGA/Archetype publication: Artists' Pigments Volumes 1-4 (set) A Handbook of their History and Characteristics Normally priced at 435.00GBP, we are offering the four volume set at a discount price of 390.00GBP (subject to availability and purchase by credit card). To obtain this discount,...

Selling our office library books

28 June 2021 We are selling some of the books from the Archetype office library. Please see the list of titles and their prices in GBP below. The books are sold on a first come, first served basis, we only have one copy of each. If you would like to buy a title please email us at [email protected] with your shipping address. We will then let you know the shipping costs based on book(s)...

Book Talk with Ksynia Marko

11 June 2021 Wednesday 23 June 2021, 3pm BST   In this Archetype Book Talk Ksynia Marko will talk about her background, training, research, as well as her recent publication Woven Tapestry: Guidelines for Conservation   and future projects. Expected duration: 60 minutes including a presentation and Q&A Registration This talk is gratis but you must register via ...

Discount on selected titles on Textiles, Organics & Museology

26 May 2021 We are offering another special discount! This week we are offering some of our titles related to Textiles, Organic Materials and Museology for 50% off, if ordered online by Sunday, 30 May 2021. Please see the list of titles and th...

Virtual Book Talk with Jo Kirby and Maarten van Bommel

25 May 2021 Tuesday 25 May 2021, 3pm BST   In this Archetype Book Talk Jo Kirby, Maarten van Bommel, Ilaria Degano and Joanne Dyer will talk about the Dyes in History and Archaeology meetings and books. This talk is gratis but you must register via Eventbrite in order to receive the link to participate on Zoom. If you can no longer attend please let us know. ...

Virtual Book Talk with David Pinniger

12 April 2021 We are very excited to announce our first Book Talk - a new intermittent series of online talks hosted by Archetype Publications in association with IAP Virtual.  In our very first Book Talk David Pinniger will talk to us about his publication Integrated Pest Management for Cultural Heritage. This practical, colour- illustrated, working handbook was designed for curators, conservators and...

Virtual Book Talk with Archetype Authors

23 March 2021 We are very excited to announce Book Talk - a new intermittent series of online talks hosted by Archetype Publications in association with IAP Virtual. Authors, editors and contributors to Archetype titles will be joining us for one-hour virtual events on the IAP Virtual platform. They will initially give an illustrated talk about specific parts or aspects of their book or...

London shop - Covid-19 update

5 November 2020 In line with the new government restrictions for England our Archtype shop in Westminster, London will be closed from now until further notice.  Our titles continue to be available our online shop . We currently do not expect any delays in sending out orders.   If you have any questions please contact us at  [email protected]  or  +44 20 7380 0800 We are...

2 - 6 November: IIC Congress 2020

30 October 2020 Archetype Publications is among the digital exhibitors of the IIC Edinburgh Congress running from the 2nd to the 6th of November. The 2020 Congress ‘ Current Practices and Challenges in Built Heritage Conservation ’ was devised to bridge the divide between built heritage and in-situ collections. The IIC 2020 Congress Proceedings will be available for purchase on our website soon....

14 - 18 October: Frankfurter Buchmesse 2020

14 October 2020 We are among the digital exhibitors of this years Frankfurter Buchmesse which has started today. This special edition in Corona times offers a digital book fair, live progamme, events such as 'Weltempfang' and digital platforms like 'Signals of Hope' accessible to you from home. For details please visit: https://www.buchmesse.de/en/digital-fair...

Our Bookshop in London is now open again

12 October 2020 We are happy to announce that we are welcoming customers again in our bookshop in Westminster. You can find us at 1 Birdcage Walk, SW1H 9JJ London within the Institution for Mechanical Engineers. Upon arrival please speak to the receptionist to inform them that you are here to see Archetype Publications c/o IAP. They will need to sign you in and out. Hygiene- and physical distance measures...

IIC virtual conference

17 August 2020 Archetype Books will be a virtual exhibitor at the IIC conference Current Practices and Challenges in Built Heritage Conservation 2 - 6 November 2020 Taking place online, with outposts in the real world and live broadcast from Edinburgh. We look forward to "seeing" you there!...

We are back

29 July 2020 We are now back in our offices and do currently not expect any delays in sending out orders.   We are currently available on limited office hours from Monday to Friday 8am to 3pm BST. If you have any questions please contact us at  [email protected]  or  +44 20 7380 0800 Our shop in Westminster, London remains closed for customers until further notice. ...

Forthcoming Archetype Titles Summer/Autumn

26 June 2020 We are delighted to inform you of the titles we will publish in the summer and autumn of 2020:     Woven Tapestry: Guidelines for Conservation     On the Ethics of Cultural Heritage Conservation...

Books you can access for free online

23 April 2020 We love paper books but over the years we have also published a few books that are available online for free. Please see below a list of books which might help you to pass the time. Wooden Supports in 12th-16th-Century European Paintings Trading Paintings and Painters’ Materials 1550–1800 Studying the European Visual Arts 1800-1850...

Supplementary information on silverfish

13 November 2019 We have updated information available on silverfish pp36 -37 in Integrated Pest Management in Cultural Heritage by David Pinniger. The silverfish section on p36 should read from line 7: “Another larger species Ctenolepisma longicaudata , known as the grey silverfish, is now an important pest in a number of European countries including Austria, Belgium, Norway and the...

Archetype Newsletter

8 January 2019 To receive our irregular (approximately monthly) enews with details of forthcoming titles and pre-publication discounts please subscribe here . If you have any questions please contact us at [email protected]...