The thirty-first Print Networks Conference on the History of the British book trade will take place at the University of Chichester on 23rd-25th July 2013. ‘Travel, Topography and the Book Trade’ has been chosen as the theme for the conference, broadly defined. Any papers relating to the production, distribution and reception of texts and images […]
Archives for December 2012
Bartholomew Exhibition
December 20, 2012
Putting Scotland on the Map is the National Library of Scotland’s exhibition about the world of John Bartholomew and Son, the famous Edinburgh map printing firm. As well as maps and atlases, the exhibition includes items from the Bartholomew Archive held in the Library, which documents 200 years of the firm’s history. On 31 January […]
Blairgowrie Printers
December 10, 2012
The Ericht Trust are appealing for funds to enable the production of a film about Blairgowrie Printers ‘its people, how it worked and what it did’. Blairgowrie Printers were the town’s local printing firm from the 19th century until quite recently, and in addition printed the Blairgowrie Advertiser until 1978. More details of the film and […]
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