In the past, vellum described a writing surface made from animal hides. The vellum was sometimes slightly transparent, and that use of the term remains in use today. Vellum, a favorite paper among ...

MPs spent two hours this evening debating whether they should remain in the 11th Century, and keep wasting £80,000 a year printing laws on the skin of dead baby cows Labour's Melanie Onn said it was ...

Acts of Parliament on vellum rolls are stored in Victoria Tower in the Palace of Westminster An MP who backed moves to scrap Parliament's centuries-old tradition of printing laws on calf skin has ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Just 522 years after Britain’s first paper mill opened, Parliament has decided to stop printing laws on animal skins. For a thousand years, laws in Britain have been printed on vellum, a costly ...

Britain's parliament should continue printing its laws onto traditional vellum the government has said, in comments hailed by a manufacturer as "a victory for common sense." Modern U.K. legislation is ...