Rex Winsbury

Rex Winsbury is a publisher and publishing consultant on new forms of technology in the media.

Why Wapping?

Rex Winsbury, 6 March 1986

There was once a famous proprietor of the Times newspaper who, wishing to introduce new technology into his production plant but fearing the hostility of his print workers, resorted to subterfuge. He installed his new equipment secretly in a separate building, got it working without the use of traditional print staff, all the while maintaining normal production at his old works. When the new plant was ready and actually printing the Times, he presented it as a fait accompli to his workers.

Play the game: Cleopatra

Michael Kulikowski, 31 March 2011

We know much less than we would like about the Syrian queen Zenobia of Palmyra, and rather less than our 19th-century predecessors, who wrote before source-criticism eliminated much of the...

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