#caxton

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Colin Wilson - Afterlife - Caxton - 1985

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sonya was such an icon

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HALF SUNK, A SHATTERED VISAGE LIES

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The Lamb’s Faith Enforcer, Caxton along with his wife, Follower Deoma Unfortunately, Deoma passed away during childbirth. The child, Khalyn, survived. Their marriage, and the birth, both take place between Rise of the Black Crown (excluding chapter ‘Epilogue’) and The Man in the Forest

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Anthony Woodville, William Caxton and Early Printing in England

Today we have another fabulous guest post! Today’s writer is Danielle Burton, a history blogger who also works as a project archive assistant at the Derbyshire Record Office. She has a degree…

In 1476, William Caxton opened his print shop in Westminster. This shop would be the start of a long tradition of printing books in England. Whilst he did often operate alone – although he is thought to have sold books produced by others at his shop – the first few years of his establishment in England were helped by Anthony Woodville, the brother-in-law of Edward IV.[1] Anthony was not only Caxton’s best patron, but also translated texts which Caxton printed for him. As the head of the Household of Edward, Prince of Wales, Anthony also used texts created by Caxton to educate a future king. In many ways, this mutually beneficial role has been somewhat forgotten with time. Many have instead seen Anthony Woodville as someone who achieved little, mainly due to his execution in 1483. However, this is far from the truth.

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A bit of November 18th history...

326 - Old St Peter’s Basilica consecrated in Rome (stood 4th - 16th century) later replaced by current Basilica

1307 - William Tell reportedly shoots apple off his sons head (pictured)

1477 - 1st English dated printed book “Dictes and Sayengis of the Phylosophers” by William Caxton

1626 - St Peter’s Basilica is consecrated, replacing an earlier basilica on the same site and becoming the worlds largest Christian Basilica

1902 - Brooklyn toymaker, Morris Michton, names the teddy bear after US President Teddy Roosevelt

1916 - British General Douglas Haig finally calls off the 1st Battle of the Somme in WWI after more than 1 million soldiers had been killed or wounded

1928 - Walt Disney’s “Steamboat Willie” released, 1st Mickey Mouse sound cartoon

1978 - In Jonestown, Guyana, 918 members of the Peoples Temple are murdered or commit suicide under the leadership of cult leader Jim Jones

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Cover from: Gould, Robert Freke, 1836-1915. The history of freemasonry. London : Caxton Publishing Company, 1880s?

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"And one of theym... cam in to an hows and axed for mete and specyally he axyd after eggys, and the goode wyf answerde that she could speke no Frenshe. And the marchaunt was angry, for he also coude speke no Frenshe, but wolde have hadde egges; and she understode hym not. And thenne at laste a-nother sayd that he wolde have eyren. Then the good wyf sayd that she understod hym wel. Loo, what sholde a man in thyse dayes now wryte, egges, or eyren? Certaynly it is hard to playse every man, by-cause of dyversite and chaunge of langage."

William Caxton musing on the evolution of language in the 15th century. Here he's writing about a merchant (probsbly from the north of England) asking for eggs in a pub on the Thames and having the piss taken out of him.

I love that he himself spells eggs two different ways in the same paragraph.