The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790

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Month: December 2025


Yule Never Believe it: Christmas in the Wills Collection

Laura Sangha As a bit of Christmas fun I decided to search The National Archives wills catalogue for people with festive names. As usual, an idle browse through the catalogue actually sent me down some quite interesting avenues. Here is a little summary, offered in the spirit of the season! Mr, Mrs and Master Christmas […]


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Will of the Month: A merchant of Ragusa and 300 pairs of stockings

When selecting previous wills to feature in our monthly series, we browsed testator metadata, looking for particular names or locations, or filtering by occupational, social, and marital status. All of this information can be searched for on The National Archives’ Discovery catalogue. However, thanks to the recent completion of our will transcriptions and the development […]


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Project Progress Update December 2025

Emily Vine Having recently reached a very significant project milestone, we thought this would be the perfect moment to update you on the current status of our research. Zooniverse Volunteer Phase Complete! Our big news is that October 2025 marked the end of the Zooniverse phase of our project, which had been running since October […]


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