Printing and Bookbinding unions - Society of Graphical and Allied Trades '82 (SOGAT '82)
1835 - Bookbinders Consolidated Relief Fund - Provincial formed
1865 - Pattern Card Makers Society formed
1872 - Bookbinders Consolidated Relief Fund - Provincial changed name to Bookbinders and Machine Rulers Consolidated Union
1889 - Printers' Labourers' Union formed
1890-1974 - Printing and Kindred Trades Federation formed
1899 - Printers' Labourers' Union changed name to Operative Printers' Assistants Union
1904-1912 - Operative Printers' Assistants Union changed name to National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants (NATSOPA)
1911 - National Union of Bookbinders and Machine Rulers formed from an amalgamated of 4 bookbinders' societies including the Bookbinders and Machine Rulers' Consolidated Union.
1914 - National Union of Printing and Paper Workers formed from an amalgamation of 3 unions.
1921 - National Union of Bookbinders and Machine Rulers amalgamated with the National Union of Printing and Paper Workers and changed name to National Union of Printing, Bookbinding, Machine Ruling and Paper Workers.
1928 - National Union of Printing, Bookbinding, Machine Ruling and Paper Workers changed name to National Union of Printing, Bookbinding and Paper Workers.
1963 - Pattern Card Makers Society joined the National Union of Printing, Bookbinding and Paper Workers
1966 - National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants (NATSOPA) merged with the National Union of Printing, Bookbinding and Paper Workers to form Society of Graphical and Allied Trades (SOGAT) division 1 and division A respectively.
1970 - SOGAT divsion 1 and division A dissolved into several new bodies including the National Society of Operative Printers and Media Personnel (formerly National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants, NATSOPA) and SOGAT (formerly National Union of Printing, Bookbinding and Paper Workers)
1975 - SOGAT merged with the Scottish Graphical Association to form Society of Graphical and Allied Trades '75 (SOGAT '75)
1982 - SOGAT '75 merged with the National Society of Operative Printers and Media Personnel to form Society of Graphical and Allied Trades '82 (SOGAT '82)
1991 - National Graphical Association amalgamated with the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades '82 (SOGAT '82) to form the Graphcal, Paper and Media Union
2004 - Graphical, Paper and Media Union merged with AMICUS
2007 - AMICUS merged with the Transport and General Workers Union to form Unite.
Unite still exists today, click here to visit their Website