Archives for March 2024

Robert Smail’s Printing Works opening 2024

The National Trust for Scotland’s Robert Smail’s Printing Works opens for the season on 29 March 2024. For full details of opening times and how to get there see the NTS website.

OTD 5 March 1822

The Society of Bookbinders in Edinburgh was formed in 1814, as a relief society for sick and unemployed members. On 5 March 1822 the name changed to the Union Society of Edinburgh Journeyman Bookbinders. The Society continued for 50 years, remaining independent of the Bookbinders Consolidated Union until September 1872 when the two organisations amalgamated […]