Sally Jeffery
sallyjeffery@mastodon.scot
<p>A typographer who strayed. Writing about old working lives – printers, mariners, a painter-engraver next. Latterly veering back to typo, to build an online archive of letterpress printing in foundry types by one printer in the 1950s and 1960s. </p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/desmond-jeffery-printer" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/desmond-je</span><span class="invisible">ffery-printer</span></a></p><p>Books etc at <a href="https://thingsturnedup.uk/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">thingsturnedup.uk/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Header: detail of a rockface from ‘St Jerome pen
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Post #948124
The skeletons of twenty ancient Gauls have been discovered under Dijon’s city centre. They were buried sitting up and facing west. So why were they buried in this bizarre way? “We do not have a preferred hypothesis,” said Latron. “We’re missing the surface layer, which was above the tombs.” “Being an archaeologist can be a very frustrating profession,” she added. [admirable resistance by archaeo-anthropologist Annamaria Latron to an invitation to fabulate] https://www.theguardian.com/world...
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Post #948123
@Pepijn now do sheep