Walk into any college lecture hall, and you’ll see a sea of laptops clicking away, accompanied by the occasional frantic scribble of a ballpoint. But every now and then, you’ll spot a glint of metal ...

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While the concept of applying ink to paper with a stylus can be traced back to ancient Egypt and China, the modern self-contained ink pen is a relatively new invention. Split quills gave way to metal ...

Ed Miliband recently purchased a £150 Cross fountain pen plus several boxes of spare cartridges from pen specialist J M Pennifeather, in Hampstead. “Although fountain pens are ideal for writing long ...

At its most basic, a pen has to do just one thing, but there are so many reasons to choose one over another. Does it glide along the page, or does it drag? Does the ink flow in a smooth line, or is it ...