Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When Hayley Harrison taught a class of disengaged year 12 boys early this year, she asked them to draw a picture of what writing meant ...

An antique-dealer friend recently gave me a handwritten diary, penned by a Victorian lady which begins: “We were married on July 29, 1858 . . .” It is an everyday book with little excitement or drama ...

The coded language of floriography meant that Victorians could express affection, desire or disdain, allowing a society governed by strict etiquette to show its true feelings. Now the language of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This essay examines the widespread practice of oath-taking among England's professional classes and the anxieties such ritual performances ...

The everyday tasks that humans often take for granted, such as walking and handwriting, have, until recently, been challenging to program a robot to do. The Handwriting Company now has a robot that ...

As a burgeoning memoirist, Nell Stevens specializes in starting out in the wrong direction. In 2013 she went off to the Falkland Islands to write a novel. She ended up writing a memoir about not ...