The National Library of Scotland’s Elizabeth Soutar Bookbinding Competition is open for entries. It aims to encourage the practice and development of creative and craft binding skills. For more details see the National Library of Scotland’s website. Details of this year’s themes, and how to enter are available on the National Library’s website.
Quarto Press open to visitors
September 12, 2021
The Quarto Press at Coupar Angus is open to visitors for the Perth & Kinross 2021 Doors Open Day weekend, 18 and 19 September. For details of the workshop and how to get there see the Doors Open Day website.
Wayzgoose at the Glasgow Press
September 10, 2021
The Glasgow Press is staying the workshop for this year’s Wayzgoose on Saturday 18 September for Glasgow’s 2021 Doors Open Day. Details of the letterpress workshops are on the Doors Open Day website.
Penicuik Printers open for Doors Open Day
September 2, 2021
The Papermaking Heritage Centre at the Pen-y-coe Press in Penicuik is offering tours for Midlothian’s 2021 Doors Open Day on 11 September. Booking is essential. For more details and how to book a place see the Doors Open Day website.
Printing History Prize 2021
August 15, 2021
The Printing Historical Society Prize for New Scholarship will be available again this year. Submissions are invited in the form of a new article (4–8,000 words) on a printing-historical subject, suitable for the Society’s Journal. The winning author will receive this year’s Prize, a purse of £500, membership of the Printing Historical Society for one […]
Call for papers — Around the text
July 24, 2021
Proposals for papers are invited on the theme of Around the Text for a conference to be held in Appleby-in-Westmorland in Cumbria in early April 2022. The conference will consider supporting materials and activities around the design, production, and promotion of a printed text, particularly in the Anglophone world. Full details of the conference theme […]
Printing for tourists
July 5, 2021
Booking is open for the online conference A visitor attraction: printing for tourists which is to take place via Zoom on 20–21 July 2021. Full details of the conference programme and how to book are available on the website of the Centre for Printing History and Culture.
Robert Smail’s Printing Works is open
June 20, 2021
If you are planning a day out, Robert Smail’s Printing Works in Innerleithen is open 1pm to 5pm, Fridays to Mondays each weekend. For full details of current arrangements are on the National Trust for Scotland’s website.
Online presentation on printing
June 10, 2021
The Centre for Printing History and Culture is holding their second 20 x 20 Night on Thursday 17 June at 17:30. Tickets are free but booking is necessary, and you can register through their website.
Justin Howes Memorial Lecture 2021
April 18, 2021
John Hudson will give the Justin Howes Memorial Lecture at St Brides Library on Thursday 20 May at 7pm. His talk is entitled The commanded letter: writing, engraving and typography in eighteenth-century London. For more details and information about how to book see the St Bride’s website.
SPRAT is grateful for support from The Watson Foundation