Roland Allen

They went into various libraries around the world and never got opened because they're quite difficult to read. People admired the drawings, but

They went into various libraries around the world and never got opened because they're quite difficult to read. People admired the drawings, but

actual notes he made which are in many ways much more incredible than the drawings he did were completely ignored so fantastic as they were they had a limited impact on the world whereas if you look at someone like charles darwin's notebooks completely the opposite they're horrible to look at they're absolutely scrappy but it was those notes which directly led to

actual notes he made which are in many ways much more incredible than the drawings he did were completely ignored so fantastic as they were they had a limited impact on the world whereas if you look at someone like charles darwin's notebooks completely the opposite they're horrible to look at they're absolutely scrappy but it was those notes which directly led to

actual notes he made which are in many ways much more incredible than the drawings he did were completely ignored so fantastic as they were they had a limited impact on the world whereas if you look at someone like charles darwin's notebooks completely the opposite they're horrible to look at they're absolutely scrappy but it was those notes which directly led to

on the origin of species by natural selection and so the theory of evolution which has completely changed the way we think about the world and this sprang out of 14 or 15 tiny tiny notebooks which together would fit for instance in a shoebox without any trouble so although they're very unspectacular looking very scrappy no punctuation these possibly are the ones which have had the greatest impact on the way we think

on the origin of species by natural selection and so the theory of evolution which has completely changed the way we think about the world and this sprang out of 14 or 15 tiny tiny notebooks which together would fit for instance in a shoebox without any trouble so although they're very unspectacular looking very scrappy no punctuation these possibly are the ones which have had the greatest impact on the way we think

on the origin of species by natural selection and so the theory of evolution which has completely changed the way we think about the world and this sprang out of 14 or 15 tiny tiny notebooks which together would fit for instance in a shoebox without any trouble so although they're very unspectacular looking very scrappy no punctuation these possibly are the ones which have had the greatest impact on the way we think

In terms of a paper notebook, as we would think of it and recognise it with covers and paper pages, you're looking, I think, at Baghdad around the year 800. That seems to be the general consensus, because bookbinding, making paper into the shape that we recognise it today, that's a Western thing.

In terms of a paper notebook, as we would think of it and recognise it with covers and paper pages, you're looking, I think, at Baghdad around the year 800. That seems to be the general consensus, because bookbinding, making paper into the shape that we recognise it today, that's a Western thing.

In terms of a paper notebook, as we would think of it and recognise it with covers and paper pages, you're looking, I think, at Baghdad around the year 800. That seems to be the general consensus, because bookbinding, making paper into the shape that we recognise it today, that's a Western thing.

Paper is an Eastern thing, came originally from China, and they seem to meet in Baghdad around the year 800, and therefore that's where the first notebooks are going to have been. Very, very few of them, if any, from that era seem to have survived. When they do start surviving in huge numbers for the first time, it is in Italy around 500 years later, and it is particularly in Florence.

Paper is an Eastern thing, came originally from China, and they seem to meet in Baghdad around the year 800, and therefore that's where the first notebooks are going to have been. Very, very few of them, if any, from that era seem to have survived. When they do start surviving in huge numbers for the first time, it is in Italy around 500 years later, and it is particularly in Florence.

Paper is an Eastern thing, came originally from China, and they seem to meet in Baghdad around the year 800, and therefore that's where the first notebooks are going to have been. Very, very few of them, if any, from that era seem to have survived. When they do start surviving in huge numbers for the first time, it is in Italy around 500 years later, and it is particularly in Florence.

And that was just a notebook-obsessed culture. And we have a lot of different kinds of notebooks from there. So that's really an important stage in the story, I think.

And that was just a notebook-obsessed culture. And we have a lot of different kinds of notebooks from there. So that's really an important stage in the story, I think.

And that was just a notebook-obsessed culture. And we have a lot of different kinds of notebooks from there. So that's really an important stage in the story, I think.

I would find it really interesting. And if you do have your notebooks from that time, then that's a sort of window back into the person that you were. You sort of get to meet them again, looking backwards. If you were writing anything down for an educational reason or because you wanted to remember it, then writing stuff down in a notebook is really about the best way to remember it.

I would find it really interesting. And if you do have your notebooks from that time, then that's a sort of window back into the person that you were. You sort of get to meet them again, looking backwards. If you were writing anything down for an educational reason or because you wanted to remember it, then writing stuff down in a notebook is really about the best way to remember it.

I would find it really interesting. And if you do have your notebooks from that time, then that's a sort of window back into the person that you were. You sort of get to meet them again, looking backwards. If you were writing anything down for an educational reason or because you wanted to remember it, then writing stuff down in a notebook is really about the best way to remember it.