As part of the National Trust for Scotland’s Gladstone’s Land Lecture Series, the Trust’s Honorary Secretary, Helen S Williams will be giving a talk on August 31 on Edinburgh’s Print Workers and their Organisations. Printers had a tradition of collective organisation: the typographical societies, which later became the print unions, operated as welfare organisations for […]
Read about roving printers
December 15, 2018 by
A summary of Prof David Finkelstein’s book on Movable types — printers who moved throughout the world in the nineteenth century — is available as part of the Oxford Research Encyclopaedias series online. The main text is behind a paywall — or you can buy your own copy.
Stationer’s Company archive now online
October 7, 2017 by
Primary sources from the archive of The Worshipful Company of Stationers & Newspaper Makers, at Stationers’ Hall in the City of London, have been digitised. The new Literary Print Culture website provides access to a vast collection of primary source documents for the study of the history of the book, publishing history, the history of […]
Aldus Manutius digitized
July 6, 2017 by
Publishing @ Simon Fraser University and Simon Fraser University Library have digitized 21 volumes from the press of Aldus Manutius, printed between 1501 and 1580. They have been digitized from the collection of 106 volumes brought together by Hugh McDonald and his wife Jerry and were acquired by Simon Fraser University Library with support from […]
Printers in World War I
May 16, 2017 by
Some information on World War I rolls of honour for the printing and allied trades in Scotland have been added to the People section of our website. If you have any information about printers’ war service that could be added to this section, please email the Honorary Secretary or use the form on our Contacts […]
Douglas Foulis
February 12, 2017 by
Douglas Foulis, of the long-established publishing and binding firm of Hunter & Foulis, died in December 2016 at the age of 90. As well as working int he industry, he was involved in the work of the Society of Master Printers’ of Scotland. Obituaries of him have been published in the Scotsman and the Herald.
Douglas Grant
February 21, 2015 by
The Edinburgh printer and publisher, Douglas Grant, died in July 2014. He was a significant figure in the printing and publishing industry, latterly as the managing director of Scottish Academic Press. Earlier, he had been the managing director of Oliver & Boyd, and was involved in the efforts to save R & R Clark around […]
Dundee Printers in World War I
November 9, 2014 by
The National Library of Scotland has added a number of World War I ‘rolls of honour’ to their digital gallery. Among them is the Roll of honour of Caxton House Printing Office, Dundee, published in 1920. The book includes details of the printing career and war experiences of employees, and in some cases there are also […]
Allan Waterston
August 9, 2014 by
The military career of Edinburgh printer, Allan Waterston, who recently died aged 92, is highlighted in the obituary published in the Daily Telegraph. He saw active service in North Africa, Italy and Austria in World War II. His war service interrupted his studies at the London College of Printing, and on their final completion he […]
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