SPrAT Trustee, Tim Honnor has recently installed a new machine at the his private press in Inverness. The Victoria printing machine may be the only one of its kind in Scotland in working order — it was made in 1932 and is electrically driven. The Periscope Press also has a treadle ‘Arab’ platen made in […]
Online Shop still open
June 5, 2020
If you would like to order any of our publications on the history of Scotland’s printing industry, please order through our online shop. Obviously we can’t promise the fastest delivery times at the moment, but your order will be processed as soon as possible.
Support available from the Printing Charity
May 28, 2020
The Printing Charity is open and are working to support people during the current emergency. It is the only dedicated charity for people working in or connected to printing, publishing, packaging, and the graphic arts. If you have worked or are still working in the printing industry, and need practical or emotional support you can […]
Death of former Trustee
May 22, 2020
Richard (Dick) Honour, a former Trustess, died in Edinburgh earlier this month. He saw active service during the Second World War, after which he taught printing in Oxford and then at Napier College (now Edinburgh Napier University). The Trust would like to offer its condolences to all his family.
Conference on regional printing
May 10, 2020
A conference on Places, spaces and the printing press: imprinting regional identities will take place in March 2021 At the National and University Library, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Paper proposal should be submitted by 20 September 2020, and a selection of papers, in expanded form, will be publislhed in a specially edited volume of the series ‘Printing […]
New date for ‘Printing for Tourists’ conference
April 28, 2020
The Print Networks / CPHC Conference ‘A visitor attraction: printing for tourists’ which was due to take place in Appleby-in-Westmoreland in July 2020 has been postponed to 20–21 July 2021. ‘Printing for tourists’ encompasses tickets, notices, leaflets, labels, folders, billheads and other throwaways, alongside books both physical and virtual, that have come to represent tourists […]
Baskerville Bible to stay in Birmingham
April 20, 2020
The future of the Baskerville Bible owned by Birmingham inventor and industrialist Matthew Boulton has been secured, and it will now be housed in the Cadbury Research Library at the University of Birmingham, alongside the University’s many other Baskerville holdings. The lives of Matthew Boulton and the printer John Baskerville were intertwined both commercially and […]
Print Futures Awards 2020 Applications now open
April 18, 2020
The Printing Charity’s annual Print Futures Awards support people aged 18–30, who are starting out or already working in the print, paper, publishing, packaging, and graphic arts sector. You can find out more and apply on the Printing Charity’s website. The deadline for submissions is 26 April 2020.
St Brides opening in March
February 23, 2020
St Bride’s Library will be open on Wednesday 4 March and Wednesday 18 March from 12 noon – 8pm. Email in advance (library@sbf.org.uk) to let the library know that you intend to visit as space in the Reading Room is limited. Check the online catalogue and email a list of titles you wish to see […]
Exhibition on printing in London
February 15, 2020
An exhibition on the history of east London’s print industry opens at the Nunnery Gallery in Bow Road, London E3 on 17 January 2020. It will include historic photographs and printed items as well as print workers’ memories, told through a new collection of oral histories. Using archive and newly found material from companies, co-ops […]
SPRAT is grateful for support from The Watson Foundation