The study of old handwriting.
Palaeography
Fact of the Day
The first people to use umbrellas in eighteenth-century Britain were laughed at and called 'mincing Frenchmen'.
Quote of the Day
"What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?
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~ Abraham Lincoln
On This Day
1787 The 'First Fleet' of 11 ships carrying convicts to Australia left England.
1888 Slavery was abolished in Brazil.