Diana Athill and Philip Hensher on the dying art of handwriting on Radio 4

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01n61s3

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18071830

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oct/07/missing-ink-handwriting-art-hensher-extract?INTCMP=SRCH 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2148579/The-fountain-pen-mightier-emails-texts-luxury-item-makes-comeback.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/mother-tongue/9305365/Traditional-thank-you-letter-far-from-dead-in-age-of-Twitter-and-texting.html



Now, over the last few years, it seems that fountain pens are making somewhat of a revival, so we decided to bring all these resources and articles together to get the whole picture. So where did the whole resurgence begin? It was not long after Amazon, Rymans, John Lewis and the Parker Pens company announced the massive increase in sales that it came to the attention of the general public.

We all know that Fountain Pens used to be the bees knees in the writing world back in the day, but since the perfection of the ballpoint pen in the 1960's and then the dawn of the digital and more disposable age, the interest on fountain pens has been naturally and understandably on the wain.

But thankfully interest in fountain pens didn't die out, they just slid into a different niche, from a useful day to day item that more or less everyone used to write with, to a more specialist item that has spawned a whole new community of experts and enthusiasts.

If anyone has anymore sources of valuable information let let us know!