Editing London College of Communication (section)

== History ==

The school was formed in 1990 by the merger of the College for Distributive Trades with the London College of Printing.

The London College of Printing descended from the St Bride's Foundation Institute Printing School, which was established in November 1894 under the [[City of London Parochial Charities Act 1883|City of London Parochial Charities Act of 1883]]. The Guild and Technical School opened in [[Clerkenwell]] in the same year, but moved a year later to Bolt Court, and became the Bolt Court Technical School; it was later renamed the London County Council School of Photoengraving and Lithography. 

Annual portfolios of student work were assembled during the years that the printing school was administered  by St Bride Foundation. These, and other early documentation, form part of the permanent collections at St Bride Printing Library. 

St Bride's came under the control of the London County Council in 1922 and was renamed the London School of Printing and Kindred Trades; in 1949 it was merged with the LCC School of Photoengraving and Lithography, forming the London School of Printing and Graphic Arts. In 1960 this was renamed the London College of Printing. The printing department of the [[North Western Polytechnic]] was merged into it in 1969. The London College of Printing became part of the [[London Institute]] in 1986.{{r|aim4}}

The Westminster Day Continuation School opened in 1921, and was later renamed the College for Distributive Trades, providing practical education relating to retail, and later to the related area of marketing.{{cn|date=June 2023}} It too became part of the London Institute in 1986. In 1990 it merged with the London College of Printing to form the London College of Printing and Distributive Trades, which in 1996 was renamed the London College of Communication.{{r|aim4}}

In 2003 the London Institute received [[Privy Council]] approval for university status, and in 2004 was renamed University of the Arts London.{{r|telegraph}}