In 1391, 2.3 million sheets of paper arrived at the port of London: a page for every person in England. Most of it was probably low-quality brown paper used as a packing material to protect foodstuffs ...

A distinctive watermark, in the shape of a dragon, can be seen on the fold between the sheets of this medieval manuscript The people of 14th Century Norwich were among the early adopters of paper, a ...

The thick, polished animal skin used as paper during the Medieval era wasn’t very strong. It was really easy to rip during cleaning and preparation. But nobody could afford to toss away a page just ...

The people of 14th Century Norwich were among the early adopters of paper, a "pivotal technology" that has parallels with the 21st Century emergence of the iPad, researchers say. Cambridge University ...