... Wyndham World War I poetry clerk General Post Office Ministry of Munitions paper money gold Iris Barry as a young writer (c. 1917). (IBP, MoMA Dept. of Film Archives, NY) When war broke out in 1914, Iris took a job as a typist at ten shillings a week in a dismal pen factory, from which...

...By the Medieval Era, the Far East had not only caught up with Christian and Islamic civilization but, at least in commercial terms, had surpassed both. From the invention of fiduciary (or paper) money to sophisticated forms of urban development and labor specialization, Chinese entrepreneurs had...