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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Fleet Street
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(London EC4) Street associated with printing from about 1500, when Wynkyn de Worde moved *Caxton's press here from Westminster. Until recently it was the centre of Britain's national press, containing the often very grand headquarters of the great newspapers; the Daily *Express building, in particular, has a superb Art Deco interior. But papers began to move to new premises elsewhere in the 1980s, to meet the demands of modern technology and to sidetrack the powerful printing unions associated with Fleet Street. It seems likely that the traditional link with printing and writing, seen also in *St Bride's and in pubs such as the *Cheshire Cheese, will soon be a matter of history.
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