We have much to learn from ancient crafts and if we don't look after their history, we lose an important part of our past. Book designer and publisher Susan Shaw felt that way about the letterpress printing industry. A fierce and determined protector of all things type, in 1992, on hearing that the once-great Monotype Corporation was in danger of bankruptcy, she set about successfully rescuing its stock and using it to found the Type Museum (later the Type Archive) in Stockwell, in south London.
