Thursday

Yesterday, Thursday 12th of June, the writers spent some time writing information texts on the ‘History of Printing’ and the ‘Wapping strike’. Today we have many objects and machines, which we did not have in the past to make our life much easier, before people would have to handwrite everything. Like when scribes used to make scrolls, only the rich and the well educated could afford one. People used quills and ink, which took up too much time. Until, William Caxton brought printing press to England. The printers used to get blocks which had letters; roll some ink onto the letters then press the paper onto the lettered block then they had printed paper. Here is an extract from a ‘History of printing’ text: ‘William Caxton was friends with Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy, and William had been asked to write a number of books for her. Such as: ‘The Dictes and the sayings of philosophers’ and ‘The Game of Playe of Chesse’. Here is an extract from a ‘Wapping strike’ text: After 5 months of demonstration, one woman, Emily Grigson, was nearly hit by a T.N.T truck. Later, Michael Delaney, a 19-year-old boy, was hit by a van and died. This made Emily join the protesters against Rupert Murdock and the police.