The end of October and the beginning of November marks ‘Allhallowtide’ – the time of the year when Western Christians, including in early modern England, have traditionally turned their thoughts to the dead with the marking of All Hallows’ Eve, All Saints’ Day, and All Souls’ Day. While Protestantism rejected purgatory and prayers for the […]
We’ve recently announced an exciting new phase of the ‘Material Culture of Wills’ project – the launch of our Zooniverse site, a ‘crowdsourcing’ platform that is enabling us to involve hundreds of new volunteers in the project, working with us to transcribe our sample of 25,000 English wills made between 1540 and 1790. Volunteering for the project […]
We’re delighted to announce an exciting new phase of the ‘Material Culture of Wills’ project – the launch of our Zooniverse site. We hope that the Zooniverse ‘crowdsourcing’ platform will allow us to involve hundreds of new volunteers in the project who will work with us to transcribe our sample of 25,000 English wills made […]