On 8 August 1857, there was a major fire in James’s Court, off the Lawnmarket in Edinburgh’s Old Town, in which the printing works of H & J Pillans was destroyed.
Robert Smail’s Printing Works opening 2024
25 March 2024 by
The National Trust for Scotland’s Robert Smail’s Printing Works opens for the season on 29 March 2024. For full details of opening times and how to get there see the NTS website.
‘Unfinished business’: Print Networks 2024
16 February 2024 by
This year’s Print Networks conference, Unfinished Business: Progress, Stasis and New Directions in the study of the Book Trade since Peter Isaac, will be held at Newcastle University on 9–10 July 2024. Details of the call for papers are on the Centre for Printing History and Culture website. Please submit abstracts of 200–250 words by February […]
Printing Historical Society grants 2024
31 January 2024 by
The Printing Historical Society is currently inviting applications for research grants under their annual grant scheme. The total amount available this year is £3,000, and the deadline for submissions is Friday 22 March 2024. Eligibility and application details are on the Society’s Grants page.
Conference on printing by subscription
29 August 2023 by
Booking is now open for Pre-paid Printing: a conference organised by the Baskerville Society on the role of private funds and public subscribers in the issuing and circulation of printed matter, to be held at Winterbourne House and Garden at the University of Birmingham on September 14 and 15, 2023. For more details see the […]
Talk by Helen Williams
29 July 2023 by
As part of the National Trust for Scotland’s Gladstone’s Land Lecture Series, the Trust’s Honorary Secretary, Helen S Williams will be giving a talk on August 31 on Edinburgh’s Print Workers and their Organisations. Printers had a tradition of collective organisation: the typographical societies, which later became the print unions, operated as welfare organisations for […]
Print Networks 2023
29 June 2023 by
The annual Print Networks / CPHC Symposium takes place in partnership with St Bride Library in London on 19 July 2023 The theme this year is ‘Print networks between London and the regions, looking at looks at physical and metaphorical book trade connections between London and the regions from the early modern to the present. […]
Edinburgh Printmakers’ Family Print Club session on letterpress
25 May 2023 by
The Edinburgh Printmakers Family Print Club session on 25 June is on letterpress printing and simple bookmaking. For more details and how to book, see the Edinburgh Printmakers website.
Online book launch: Women in Print 2
2 April 2023 by
An online book launch is being held on Thursday 13 April to mark the publication of Women in Print 2: production, distribution and consumption, the second of two linked volumes of essays, published by Peter Lang. The event is organised by the Centre for Printing History and Culture and more details can be found on […]
Smail’s open for 2023
25 March 2023 by
Robert Smail’s Printing Works in Innerleithen is open for the 2023 season from 1 April. For full details of opening hours and charges, see the National Trust for Scotland’s website.
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