OTD 6 July 1907

On 6 July 1907 the Strat­hearn Her­ald in Crieff was print­ed for the first time on the new­­ly-installed Cos­sar Patent Flat Bed Web News­pa­per Print­ing Machine. The instal­la­tion had been super­vised by its inven­tor, Tom Cos­sar of Gov­an, and it pro­duced every issue until its final run on 28 March 1991. This machine is now […]

Talk by Helen Williams

As part of the Nation­al Trust for Scot­land’s Glad­stone’s Land Lec­ture Series, the Trust’s Hon­orary Sec­re­tary, Helen S Williams will be giv­ing a talk on August 31 on Edin­burgh’s Print Work­ers and their Organ­i­sa­tions. Print­ers had a tra­di­tion of col­lec­tive organ­i­sa­tion: the typo­graph­i­cal soci­eties, which lat­er became the print unions, oper­at­ed as wel­fare organ­i­sa­tions for […]