Join our interactive workshop and learn to print and sing tonic solfa - a system of musical notation popular in 19th-century Britain and used by missionaries throughout the world.

This event is presented in collaboration with York Festival of Ideas 2025.

Explore examples of missionary printing and archival materials, and learn to set and print a hymn in tonic solfa notation; and enjoy singing through the final version of a printed hymn.

Led by staff from Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print and Philip Burnett of the University of York, the workshop highlights the importance of the printing press to missionary music making in the 19th century.