The Trust’s Honorary Secretary, Helen Williams is giving a talk on the printing industry in Edinburgh’s Old Town at Gladstone’s Land in the Lawnmarket on Thursday 4 July. For more details, and how to book see the National Trust for Scotland’s website.
St Bride’s Library opening times in July 2019
June 24, 2019
St Bride’s Library will be open on Wednesday 3 July and Wednesday 17 July 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 […]
Display in the Mitchell Library
June 12, 2019
The Trust’s display on the Glasgow printing industry is currently on show at the Mitchell Library in Glasgow, alongside an exhibition of items from the library’s own collections.
Talk on the Glasgow Printing Industry
June 1, 2019
On Thursday 20 June 2019 the Trust’s Honorary Secretary, Helen Williams, is giving a talk to coincide with the Making your mark display at the Mitchell Library in Glasgow. She will talk about Glasgow’s printing industry highlighting the role of ‘everyday print’ and its relationship with writing. For more details see the Mitchell Library’s website.
St Bride’s opening times for June 2019
May 24, 2019
St Bride’s Library will be open on Wednesday 5 June and Wednesday 19 June 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 […]
St Bride’s Wayzegoose
May 13, 2019
St Bride’s annual Wayzegoose for 2019 is on Saturday 19 May 11am-4pm. Demonstrations, exhibitions, meet other printers, buy and sell letterpress equipment. For details of all the events and courses at the St Bride’s Foundation, see their website.
Etching courses at Glasgow Print Studio
April 29, 2019
Glasgow Print Studio are running courses on etching for practitioners at beginner and intermediate level in May and June 2019. For full details of times/dates, costs and how to book, see the brochure on their website.
St Bride’s Library opening in May 2019
April 28, 2019
St Bride’s Library will be open on Wednesday 1 May and Wednesday 15 May 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 […]
Conference on post-war printing
April 10, 2019
Paper proposals are invited for an interdisciplinary conference, to be held at Oxford on 10–11 October 2019, on post-war printing — covering all aspects of 20th-century bibliography, printing history, typographic history, print culture, social and economic history. For full details and how to submit a proposal — deadline 19 April 2019 — see the website […]
Edinburgh Printmakers summer school brochure
April 7, 2019
Edinburgh Printmakers re-open in their new home at the end of April. Their Summer school brochure is available online — including courses on etching and stone lithography. For full details of all their courses see their website.
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