The Scottish Printing Archival Trust
Records, preserves & shares Scotland's printing heritage
Latest news
Wood engraving course at Glasgow Print Studio
March 3, 2023
Glasgow Print Studio is running a one-day taster course on wood engraving, suitable for beginners, … [Read More...]
Rising Star awards 2023
February 15, 2023
The Printing Charity’s Rising Star Awards opened for entries on 1 February: people aged 18-30 … [Read More...]
Stone lithography weekend in Edinburgh
February 12, 2023
Edinburgh Printmakers are running a weekend course in stone lithography at the beginning of March. … [Read More...]
Exhibitions etc in Scotland
- Biggar Museum Trust
- Callendar House
- National Library of Scotland
- National Museums of Scotland
- People’s Story, Edinburgh
- Robert Smail’s Printing Works, Innerleithen
- Writers’ Museum Edinburgh
Online resources for Scottish printing
- 500 years of printing in Scotland
- A K Bell Library, Perth
- Aberdeen Breviary online
- Aberdeen University Library, Special Collections
- Bartholomew archive
- Bartholomew family website
- Bible in Scotland
- Chambers Encyclopaedia
- Cossar Web-Fed Flatbed Press
- Edinburgh and Scottish Collection, City of Edinburgh Central Library
- Edinburgh City of Print image stream
- Edinburgh City of Print YouTube channel
- Edinburgh University Library: Centre for Research Collections
- Edward Raban — Aberdeen’s first printer
- Future Museum printing collection
- Glasgow University Press
- HarperCollins 200 years of books
- John Watson, A lifetime in printing
- MacLehose
- Mitchell Library, Glasgow
- National Records of Scotland
- Print Scotland
- Publishing Scotland
- Scotland’s first printed books
- Scottish Book Trade Index
- Scottish bookbindings
- Spread of printing in Scotland
- St Andrews University Library: Special Collections
- Stirling University Library
- Valentines, Dundee — archive listing
- Wick Society
Print galleries and studios in Scotland
- Dundee Contemporary Arts Print Studio
- Edinburgh Printmakers Studio and Gallery
- Glasgow Print Studio
- Highland Print Studio
Scottish universities and colleges with printing connections
- Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design
- Edinburgh College of Art
- Edinburgh Napier University: Masters in Publishing
- Edinburgh University: Centre for the History of the Book
- Edward Clark Collection at Edinburgh Napier University
- Glasgow School of Art
- Merchiston Publishing: Edinburgh Napier University’s own publishing imprint
- Stirling University: Masters in Publishing Studies
Small presses in Scotland
- Chepman and Myllar Press
- Glasgow Press
- Hunter Press, East Calder
- Pathfoot Press, University of Stirling
- Pen-y-Coe Press, Penicuik
- Periscope Press, Inverness
- Piccolo Press
- Quarto Press / Press Here
UK and other museums
- Amberley Museum, Arundel
- Association of European Printing Museums
- Atelier-musée de l’imprimerie, Malesherbes, France
- Beamish Open Air Museum, Beamish, County Durham
- Bradford Industrial Museum
- Briar Press: museum of printing presses
- British Printing Museum, Mablethorpe
- Cambridge University Press Museum
- Cary Collection
- Cherryburn — birthplace of Thomas Bewick
- Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft
- Gray’s Printing Press, Strabane
- Gutenberg Museum, Mainz, Germany
- Howard Iron Works Print Museum and Restoration, Oakvill ON, Canada
- International Printing Museum, Carson CA, USA
- Jarrold Museum, Norwich
- Mackenzie Printery, Queenston, ON Canada
- Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester
- National Typefounding Collection
- Online exhibitions at the National Print Museum, Ireland
- Oxford University Press Archive and Museum
- Penrith Museum of Printing, Australia
- Print Shop, Blist’s Hill Victorian Town, Ironbridge
- Printing Museum, New Zealand
- St Brides Foundation and Library, London
Useful general sites
Websites about printing
- Boxcar Press — Little letterpress classes on video
- Briar Press
- British Book Trade Index
- British Letterpress
- British Printing Society
- Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing at Reading University
- Centre for Printing for Printing History and Culture, Birmingham
- Centre for the Study of the Book, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Europe’s First Printers 1450–1470
- Film of the last ‘hot-metal’ edition of the New York Times
- Island of San Serriffe
- Letterpress printing in the 1960s
- Maker Press
- Metaltype website
- Oxford Guild of Printers
- Paekakariki Press
- Photogravure website
- Printers’ Collection at the Marx Memorial Library, London
- Printing Colour Project
- Printing Historical Society
- Society for the History of Authorship Reading and Publishing
- Timperley’s Dictionary of printers and printing
- Typefoundry
- University of Otago online exhibition on 19th century periodicals
SPRAT is grateful for support from The Watson Foundation