The Scottish Printing Archival Trust
Records, preserves & shares Scotland's printing heritage
Latest news
Edinburgh Printmakers’ Family Print Club session on letterpress
May 25, 2023
The Edinburgh Printmakers Family Print Club session on 25 June is on letterpress printing and simple … [Read More...]
Online book launch: Women in Print 2
April 2, 2023
An online book launch is being held on Thursday 13 April to mark the publication of Women in Print … [Read More...]
Smail’s open for 2023
March 25, 2023
Robert Smail's Printing Works in Innerleithen is open for the 2023 season from 1 April. For full … [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
- History of the Fifeshire Advertiser
- 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