The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790

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Teach early modern handwriting: a Wills Project Seminar Outline

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 […]


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