National Associations and Working Groups

AFHEPP - L’Association Francaise pour l’Histoire et l’Etude du Papier et des Papeterie

Email: contact@afhepp.org
For more information go to the website: http://www.afhepp.org/

AHHP - Associación Hispánica de Historiadores del Papel

The Spanish Paper Historians Association was founded in 1996, and actually collects 12 organized biennial congresses (odd years), with all books of congresses published, and more than 300 papers that are also compiled in one CD. This association founded for not economical profit, welcomes people interested in the paper history. Actually geographically embraces the Iberian Peninsula and the old Spanish and Portugal Ultramar territory.

For more information go to the website: http://www.ahhp.es

BAPH - The British Association of Paper Historians

This is a national association which aims to bring together individuals, companies and institutions with a common interest in the following areas: paper in all its forms and diversity, papermaking by hand and machine, paper conservation, mill and company histories, papermakers, their families and communities, machinery manufacture and development, and watermarks. BAPH holds annual conferences. As from 1993 the proceedings are usually published in the series Studies in British Paper History

For more information go to the website: http://www.baph.org.uk

BPH - Belgian Paper Historians

BPH exists since 1987 and publishes four times a year a modest magazine of 12 pages (in French and Dutch) related to the Belgian paper history and industry. The association also offers a white board to her members to exchange informations and experience.

Address: Destelheidestraat 73, B - 1653 Dworp, Belgium, Tel. +32-2.2389564, Fax +32-477.602950
Email: Jos.DeGelas@marsh.com

CISSCA - Centro Italiano di Studi di Storia della Carta "Andrea F. Gasparinetti", Fabriano

For more information go to the website: http://www.centrostudicarta.it

DAP - Deutscher Arbeitskreis für Papiergeschichte

For more information go to the website: http://www.ak-papiergeschichte.de/
Dr. Georg Dietz, Kreuzstraße 3, 01067 Dresden, Germany +49 351 285 64 361
Email: Dr. Georg Dietz

FFF - Fondazione Fedrigoni Fabriano

The Fondazione Fedrigoni Fabriano – dedicated to one of the most tenacious and illuminated entrepreneurs in the sector of international and national paper production , Mr. Gianfranco Fedrigoni - was established in Fabriano on the 8th of March 2011, under the name Fondazione Gianfranco Fedrigoni - Fabriano. Storia, scienza e arte della carta, by the Fedrigoni S.p.A., which took over the historical paper-mill Miliani Fabriano and its inestimable paper heritage in 2002.
FFF, which is a non-profit organisation, aims to support the promotion of the study of the history of paper and related disciplines; promote the development and dissemination of paper science and safeguard the archival and archeological heritage (more then 1,200 wire cloths for the cylender machine, 2,295 hand moulds and more then 3,000 dies, many dandy rolls, etc.) inherited by Miliani Fabriano Paper Mills.
E-mail: info@fondazionefedrigoni.it, Address: Viale Pietro Miliani 31/33, 60044 Fabriano - Italy
For more information go to the website: http://www.fondazionefedrigoni.it/

MAPAVIT - Magyar Papír- és Vízjeltörténeti Társaság - Hungarian Paper and Watermark History Association

For more information go to the website: http://www.mapavit.extra.hu


NPH - The Association of Scandinavian Paper Historians - Nordisk Pappershistorisk Förening

For more information go to the website: http://www.nph.nu

The complete journal Nordisk Pappershistorisk Tidskrift, NPHT of the Association is online.


SPH - Schweizer Papier-Historiker, Historiens suisses du papier

Editor of the bulletin sph-kontakte: Martin Kluge ( martin.kluge@unibas.ch)
For more information go to the website: http://www.papierhistoriker.ch.

The Friends of Dard Hunter

An international organization with a diverse membership whose interests center around handmade paper and related arts and crafts

For more information go to the website: http://www.friendsofdardhunter.org.