The National Trust for Scotland’s letterpress printing works, Robert Smail’s in Innerleithen, opens again for the 2017 season on Saturday 1 April. For details of opening times and how to get there visit their website.
Archives for March 2017
Map exhibition at NLS
March 23, 2017
You are here, an exhibition about maps, how they show us the world, and how they are made, is open until Sunday 2 April at the National Library of Scotland’s George IV Bridge building in Edinburgh. The exhibition includes one of the finest plans of Edinburgh, the first map of Scotland, as well as railway, […]
Article on the invention of paper
March 16, 2017
The invention of paper is one of the BBC’s 50 things that made the modern economy. The programme was broadcast on the World Service, and the BBC website has an article about paper, its invention and its association with Gutenberg and the spread of printing in Europe.
Print’s progress in the 20th century
March 12, 2017
You can still book tickets for the conference on twentieth century printing history organised by the Printing Historical Society, the Centre for Printing History and Culture and the National Print Museum, Dublin. Entitled From craft to technology and back again: print’s progress in the twentieth century, the conference will be hosted by the National Print […]
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