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12:00 PM March 4, 2021
Newham Bookshop s Vivian Archer says this year s World Book Day boasts a great selection , with the retailer continuing her efforts to get the borough reading.
- Credit: Ken Mears It s always a great selection and this year is no different.
The manager of Newham Bookshop has waxed lyrical about this year s World Book Day offering, with hundreds of books in store ready to be distributed to Newham children.
Vivian Archer, whose independent shop soon celebrates its 43rd birthday, is proud to have been part of the initiative since its inception: We’ve been doing it from the start. Giving children a free book is a great initiative, especially in an area like Newham where some may not own a book.
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VIDEO: Computer-generated unfolding animation of sealed letter DB-1538. In our paper we describe how virtual unfolding was used to read the contents of sealed letterpackets from 17th-century Europe without physically opening. view more
Credit: Courtesy of the Unlocking History Research Group archive.
In a world first, an international team of researchers has read an unopened letter from Renaissance Europe - without breaking its seal or damaging it in any way.
The research, published in
Nature Communications, describes how an X-ray scanner used in dental research and virtual unfolding allowed the interdisciplinary team to read the contents of a securely and intricately folded letter which has remained unopened for 300 years, while preserving its valuable physical evidence.
Tuesday, March 2, 2021
It s that time of year again when we raid the back of the cupboard in order to try and piece together a last minute literary-inspired outfit. Fear not. Help is at hand to take away the stress of the homeschool dress-up day.
Falling on Thursday 4 March this year, schools will still be closed due to lockdown restrictions but dressing up is still on the cards.
Celebrated in over 100 countries, the idea was created by Unesco in April 1995 to celebrate the beauty of books for children and to highlight how important it is “to promote reading for pleasure, offering every child and young person the opportunity to have a book of their own”.