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20% Discount on All Archetype Titles For American Customers

8 December 2025 Our customers in the Americas have a chance to get a 20% discount off any Archetype title throughout the rest of December. Please visit the ISD website to browse and save. ...

Archetype is now represented in Japan by Eureka Press

6 December 2025 We are pleased to announce that we have sales representation in Japan for the first time. This is provided by Eureka Press, led by Mr Koro Komori. He is pictured here at the Arthurian Society of Japan meeting on 6th December. We are actively seeking new work from Japan-based academics. Get in touch if you are interested in being published by Archetype....

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...

New North America distributor

2 May 2025 Archetype titles are now available to purchase from ISD for our customers in North and South America. ISD is a full-service book distribution company focusing exclusively on scholarly and specialist books. ...

Spring 2025 Catalogue

28 April 2025 You can now view our Spring 2025 catalogue online....

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...

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...

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!...

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...

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...

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...

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...