Landmarks: The History of Writing and Printing

📺BBC Schools TV

companyBBC

started16th Sep 1991

ended14th Oct 1991

last rpt30th Nov 1995

5 school years

episodes5

duration20 mins

subject 🏛️History

age rangeAge 9-11

languageenIn English

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The History of Writing and Printing is a unit of the BBC Schools TV series Landmarks from the 1990s, covering history for primary school pupils.

A survey of the development of writing and printing (a national curriculum topic), starting with cave inscriptions and looking at the present and future - "from papyrus to print-out".

Episode List

#	Title	Broadcast
1.	Early Writing	#1991-09-16-00-00-0016 Sep 1991
2.	Early Printing	#1991-09-23-00-00-0023 Sep 1991
3.	Writing and Printing Up-to-Date	#1991-09-30-00-00-0030 Sep 1991
4.	Newspapers	#1991-10-07-00-00-007 Oct 1991
5.	The Future of the Word	#1991-10-14-00-00-0014 Oct 1991

Broadcasts

Year	Term	Mon	Thu	Channel	Details
1991-92	Autumn 1991	Monday, 1:40pm	Thursday, 11:10am	BBC2	from 16 Sep
1993-94	Spring 1994	Monday, 1:40pm	Thursday, 11:10am	BBC2	from 21 Feb
1995-96	Autumn 1995	Monday, 1:20pm	Thursday, 11:35am	BBC2	from 30 Oct

Credits

Narrator	Alison Colville
Producer	Peter M. Evans

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Writing and Printing

Landmarks (1988-2002)

Series Overview • Units • Episode List

Ancient Egypt (1997) • Britain Since 1930 (1994) • Buildings and Builders (1991) • The Caribbean (1998) • Changing Landscapes (1988) • Children at War (1989-92) • Children in Victorian Britain (2002) • Coping with the Climate (1994) • Earthwatch (1990) • Egypt (1989) • Exploration and Encounters (1992) • Follow the River Severn (1997) • Geography Postcards (2001) • The History of Writing and Printing (1991) • Investigating Local History (1996) • Over to You (1989-91) • Pakistan and Its People (1993-95) • People on the Move (1991) • Portrait of Britain (1995) • Portrait of Europe (1996) • Rivers of the World (1998) • Special Reports (1991) • Time Lines (1998) • Transport (1992) • Treasures of the Landscape (1992) • Tropical Rainforests (1990) • Tudors and Stuarts (1993) • Using the Land (2000) • Victorian Britain (1995) • Victorian Children (1991) • Weather Watch (1989) • World Environmental Changes (1999)

Drama: Christopher Columbus: The Man Who Dared (1992)

See also: Landmarks Shorts • Signed Landmarks • Landmarks in Urdu • Zig Zag • Primary Geography • Primary History

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