The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790

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Month: October 2025


Will of the Month: A dying mother’s last wishes

Content note: this post discusses child loss and death in childbirth. As a project team we’ve now spent two years carefully reading and analysing hundreds of early modern wills. To a certain extent we’ve become very familiar with them: we have a sense of what we might find, how bequests are usually phrased, and we […]


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