Archives for February 2025

OTD 28 February 1803

Memo­r­i­al of the Edin­burgh Com­pos­i­tors to the Court of Ses­sion. This was a request from the com­pos­i­tors of Edin­burgh that they be allowed to con­vene a meet­ing: the Com­bi­na­tion Acts were in force at the time, pre­vent­ing work­men from act­ing togeth­er to improve their con­di­tions. Per­mis­sion was grant­ed and a request for an increase in […]

Association of European Printing Museums conference, September 2025

The Cen­tre for Print­ing His­to­ry & Cul­ture and Win­ter­bourne House, Uni­ver­si­ty of Birm­ing­ham, will be host­ing the Asso­ci­a­tion of Euro­pean Print­ing Muse­ums annu­al con­fer­ence 3–5 Sep­tem­ber 2025. They invite pro­pos­als inves­ti­gat­ing the rela­tion­ship between print­ing his­to­ry and the her­itage sites that are cus­to­di­ans of the mate­r­i­al evi­dence of print (dead­line 31 March 2025). For more […]