Explorations: Animal Farm: Printing and Writing: The history and importance of printing (part one)

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Description: Background to the Channel 4 Millennium Series ‘The Day the World Took Off’, shown in 2000. With thanks to Windfall Films.

At Robert Smail's printing press in southern Scotland, Alan Macfarlane, in conversation with Ed Nicol, describes some of the effects of the printing revolution on human knowledge and society in western Europe.
 
Created: 2018-03-11 17:08
Collection: A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off)
Publisher: University of Cambridge
Copyright: Prof Alan Macfarlane
Language: eng (English)
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