Flyers are an iconic part of the Edinburgh Fringe. Thousands of unique pieces of graphic design that come together to provide a snapshot of that years festival. We believe that they are fascinating and deserve to be preserved.

The Edinburgh Fringe Flyer Archive is an independent project founded in 2026 by an archivist and performer with a passion for preserving the history of the Festival.

No. The Edinburgh Fringe Flyer Archive is an independent project and is not affiliated with the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society.

We are collecting one copy of any flyer or small programme that is distributed as part of the Edinburgh Fringe.

We welcome flyers from all productions that form part of the wider Fringe, including shows that are not registered with the Fringe Society. If you consider your show part of the Fringe, we'd love to include it in the archive.

We certainly are! Although the archive was started in 2026, we are keen to preserve materials from previous years wherever possible. If you have taken a show to the Fringe in the past and still have flyers please get in touch, we would love to see them!

When you donate a flyer you will be asked to fill out our flyer consent form. This records your permission for us to digitise your flyer and publish images of it on our website. It also confirms that you are authorised to grant this permission, helping us ensure that the archive is managed responsibly.

Donating a flyer does not transfer copyright. The consent form simply gives the Archive permission to digitise the flyer and publish images of it as part of the collection.

Once you have given us the flyer and filled out our consent form, we will start processing it for the archive.

The first stage is to catalogue the flyer. At this stage we assign it a number within our collection, and log any additional information you have chosen to give us.

After that is digitisation. If you have donated a flyer with additional materials attached, such as review quotes, we will scan once as it is and then again without (assuming they can be removed without damage).

Finally we will prepare the flyer for long term preservation and storage. We will remove staples or other materials that could damage the flyer over time and place it in archival-standard folders and boxes.

Usually, no. We aim to collect one representative copy of each flyer. This allows us to preserve as many different productions as possible while making the best use of our storage space.

The exception is if your production has multiple different flyer designs. We'd love to receive one copy of each version.

The best way to support the Archive is to donate a flyer, tell other performers about the project, or share our website and social media with anyone who may be interested.