Scotland's Printing Heritage

OTD 12 October 1789

William Collins, founder of the Glasgow printing and publishing house, was born.

Did you know?

The first ever edition of The Scotsman, or Edinburgh Political and Literary Journal was produced on Saturday, January 25 1817, from premises in Edinburgh’s High Street. It was originally published weekly, and became a daily newspaper in 1850. The proprietors announced that their ‘first desire is to be honest, the second is to be useful’.