The 2020 Print Networks / CPHC Conference will take place in Appleby-in-Westmoreland, on the edge of Wainwright’s Lakeland Fells and will take as its theme ‘printing for tourists’ — tickets, notices, leaflets, labels, folders, billheads and other throwaways, alongside books both physical and virtual, that have come to represent tourists and tourism across the ages. […]
Talk on map printing by prisoners of war
November 24, 2019
Mark Evans and Ken Burnley are talking about The Brunswick Prison Camp Map Printers at St Bride’s Institute in London on 3 December 2019. They will describe how a clandestine press was made and run in a German prisoner of war camp (Oflag-79) in order to produce escape maps, towards the end of the second […]
St Bride’s Library opening in December
November 18, 2019
St Bride’s Library will be open on Wednesday 4 December and Wednesday 18 December 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 […]
November opening at St Bride’s Library
October 26, 2019
St Bride’s Library will be open on Wednesday 6 November and Wednesday 20 November 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 […]
Course in Inverness
October 20, 2019
The Highland Print Studio in Inverness are running an intermediate course on Relief Printing over six evenings, starting on Thursday 31 October. For more details and how to book see the Classes page of the studio’s website.
Letterpress workshops at Robert Smail’s
October 9, 2019
Robert Smail’s Printing Works at Innerleithen are running letterpress workshops again this autumn, for both beginners and and for people with a bit more experience. They are taking place on the weekends of 2/3, 9/10 and 16/17 November 2019. For more details of prices and how to book see Smail’s Facebook page, email smails@nts.org.uk or […]
Conference on post-war printing
September 24, 2019
A conference on post-war printing, organised by the Printing Historical Society, the Centre for Print History & Culture, and the Centre for the Study of the Book, Bodleian Library, will take place in Oxford, 10–11 October 2019. Tickets (£25 per person) are on sale from the event page on Eventbrite, where details of the final […]
October opening at St Bride’s Library
September 20, 2019
St Bride’s Library will be open on Wednesday 2 October and Wednesday 16 October 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 […]
Glasgow Press Wayzegoose
September 19, 2019
To mark Glasgow Doors Open Day, Glasgow Press is holding its Wayzgoose on Saturday 21 September, from 10am-4pm. A Wayzegoose was the traditional annual outing held by a printing house for its workers, marking the end of summer and the start of the season of working by candlelight. This year, they’re staying in the factory, […]
Glasgow in Print tours
September 15, 2019
The Scottish Printing Archival Trust is running two Glasgow in print tours as part of this September’s Doors Open Day programme. Booking opens on 1 September — for full details and to book your place please visit the Glasgow Doors Open Day website.
SPRAT is grateful for support from The Watson Foundation