The Scottish Printing Archival Trust | Records, preserves shares Scotlands printing heritage

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Web Name: The Scottish Printing Archival Trust | Records, preserves shares Scotlands printing heritage

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ContactThe Scottish Printing Archival TrustRecords, preserves shares Scotland s printing heritageScotland’s Printing Industry HeritageThe Scot­tish Print­ing Archival Trust was formed in 1988 to con­serve ‘knowl­edge and exam­ples of Scot­land’s print­ing her­itage for the ben­e­fit of the pub­lic and print/media edu­ca­tion’.It pro­motes inter­est in the his­to­ry of the Scot­tish print­ing indus­try, which is one of Scot­land’s old­est. The Trust also col­lects print trade ephemera, and works with insti­tu­tions across Scot­land to ensure that print­ing archives and arte­facts are not lost.PublicationsThe Trust’s books on the Scot­tish print­ing indus­try include Mechan­i­cal to Dig­i­tal Print­ing in Scot­land by the late Pro­fes­sor John Gen­nard, chart­ing the 100 year his­to­ry of the Scot­tish print employ­ers’ organ­i­sa­tion, pub­lished in asso­ci­a­tion with Print Scotand (for­mer­ly Graph­ic Enter­prise Scot­land). There are also four books in the Rep­u­ta­tion for excel­lence series of books on local print­ing indus­tries in Scot­land, Edin­burgh and Glas­gow­print trail leaflets, and a poster of Rules for the print­ing shop.You can buy any of the Trust’s pub­li­ca­tions through our online shop or down­load a form to order offline.Events Activities2018 was the 30th anniver­sary of the Trust’s foun­da­tion. To mark the occa­sion the Trust arranged an exhi­bi­tion on the her­itage of Scot­land’s print­ing indus­try in the Glas­gow Her­ald’s for­mer print­ing works, the Light­house. The free exhi­bi­tion, More than just books, ran from 9 Novem­ber 2018 to 10 Jan­u­ary 2019.A selec­tion of the pan­els from this exhi­bi­tion have since been dis­played at Edin­burgh Napi­er Uni­ver­si­ty’s Mer­chis­ton cam­pus library, the Mitchell Library in Glas­gow, and in the Big­gar and Upper Clydes­dale Muse­um.Oth­er activ­i­ties, under­tak­en with the gen­er­ous spon­sor­ship of the John Wat­son Foun­da­tion, have includ­ed guid­ed walks and train­ing work­shops on tra­di­tion­al let­ter­press skills. You can find out more on our Projects page.Details of events will be announced on this web­site, or you can fol­low us on Twit­ter.For more infor­ma­tion about any aspect of the Trust’s work, please con­tact the Hon­orary Sec­re­tary, use the con­tact form or fol­low us on Twit­ter.Mate­r­i­al from this web­site should not be repro­duced with­out per­mis­sion.Latest newsOpen House at St Bride’sSeptember 15, 2020 St Bride Foundation, just off Fleet Street, houses the history of print and the skills that made the [Read More...]Quarto Press open for visitorsSeptember 10, 2020 The Quarto Press will be open for the Doors Open Day weekend in Perth Kinross (Saturday 19 [Read More...]St Bride’s Library is reopeningSeptember 2, 2020 St Bride's Library has re-opened to personal visitors on by aapointment only on Wednesdays. [Read More...]HomeOnline shopProjects Exhibition in Glasgow 2018 The story of the Cossar Press 500 years of Scottish printing

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The Scottish Printing Archival Trust (SPRAT) was formed in 1988 to conserve "knowledge and examples of Scotland's printing heritage for the benefit of the public and print/media education." The Trust promotes interest in the history of the Scottish printing industry, which is one of Scotland's oldest.

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