From cuneiform to computer keystrokes. Thus when digital technologies of reading and writing arose, soon thereafter people became intensely reflective about what had preceded them: books, paper, pens ...

Schoolchild’s homework in Greek on a wax tablet, Egypt, 2nd century AD (copyright the British Library) LONDON — A 2,000-year-old wax tablet bears inscriptions of the Greek homework of an Egyptian ...

In “The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting” (Bloomsbury, 192 pp., $26), Anne Trubek gives a compelling and entertaining history of humanity’s relationship to the physical act of writing, and ...

London is a huge draw for Americans, but the British Library, the United Kingdom’s equivalent to the Library of Congress, is not always on people's radar. But the library's collection is comprehensive ...

The "mismatched signatures" problem in the midterms raised questions about the signature's use as a personal ID. We talk to a professor, who wrote a history of handwriting, about her signature issue.