Welcome to SAPPHIRE
The Scottish Archive of Print and Publishing History Records (SAPPHIRE) aims to record the social, economic and cultural history of the Scottish Printing and Publishing industries in the Twentieth Century and document the working lives of people who have been employed in the industry and have witnessed the changes that have taken place within it.
As a major employer in twentieth century Scottish industry, whose importance has been widely acknowledged, the print and publishing industry has a social, economic and cultural history which has been little researched and documented. The SAPPHIRE initiative has been set up as the first sustained attempt to fill this gap within that knowledge of the industry.
