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£700,000 Flag Fen Dig Targets At-Risk Bronze Age Timbers
A £700,000 excavation will examine Flag Fen’s western post alignment as falling groundwater threatens its 3,500-year-old wooden remains.
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Astronomica Ltd Expands Publishing, Design and Media Services as Sheffield Company Broadens Its Public Offering
Independent media and publishing company brings together book publishing, design, web services, communications and a growing media operation under an expanded public-facing offer SHEFFIELD, England, 11 September 2026 — Astronomica Ltd, an independent publishing and media company based in Sheffield, is expanding its public-facing work across publishing, design, digital communications and media services, bringing together…
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What Is the Doves Type? The Printing Letters Recovered from the Thames Are Being Used Again
The Doves Type is a celebrated metal typeface created for the Doves Press in London around 1900. Its co-creator, Thomas Cobden-Sanderson, later threw the type into the River Thames to stop his former business partner from inheriting it. After more than a century underwater, recovered pieces have now been used to print a book again.…