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.
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 […]
Robert Smail’s re-opens for 2019
March 30, 2019
The National Trust for Scotland’s printing works, Robert Smail’s in Innerleithen, re-opens for the season on Monday 1 April. For full details of opening hours for this season, and how to get there, see their website.
Technologies of print in Asia
March 2, 2019
A conference on the history of printing technologies in South and Southeast Asian printing history has been announced, to be held at the Royal Asiatic Society in London, on Tuesday 26 March 2019. The conference will focus on materials, processes, practices, as well as on labourers, tinkerers, entrepreneurs and other individuals in the history of […]
Poetics of print
February 11, 2019
The Poetics of Print is a one-day symposium taking place on Thursday 21 February at Winterbourne House, University of Birmingham, which brings together speakers working across a range of disciplines. For more details of the speakers and how to book, see the website of the Centre for the History of Printing and Culture.
Tour the Dundee Print Studio
February 4, 2019
The Print Studio at Dundee Contemporary Arts runs regular tours on Thursdays and Saturdays. They are a perfect precursor to doing a course or becoming a registered user — or for anyone who has always wondered what happens in the studio. DCA Print Studio houses everything from a Victorian relief press to 3D printers and […]
Conference on printed ephemera
January 22, 2019
Paper proposals for a conference on Dregs, dross and debris: the art of transient print, 9–10 July, 2019 at Liverpool John Moores University should be submitted by 31 January 2019. Contributions on all periods of print from early modern to the present are welcome. For full details of the conference and contact details see the […]
Printing exhibition in Glasgow
January 4, 2019
The Trust’s exhibition on the history of printing has been extended and will run for another week at the Lighthouse in Glasgow (until 11 January 2019). More than just books, highlights the range and variety of the printing industry in Glasgow, and was organised as part of the Trust’s celebrations of its 30th anniversary in […]
Printing workshops at St Bride’s
December 2, 2018
If you are in London, you can try out new printing and related skills. St Bride’s are running courses on hand composition, wood engraving, and how to ‘Rebind a paperback’. For more details of dates and how to book see the St Bride’s website.
SPRAT is grateful for support from The Watson Foundation