The Material Culture of Wills Project

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The Material Culture of Wills Project

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A Leverhulme Trust project using digital technology in tandem with volunteers to transcribe 25,000 wills. Find us at @materialwills.bsky.social

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In Case You Missed It 📢TUDOR WILLS NOW ON ZOONIVERSE!📢 A new milestone for our @the_zooniverse site - we've uploaded new wills 📃dating 1538-1552. Practice your sixteenth-century palaeography✍️ & read wills made during the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward⏳ #twitterstorians
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📢SIXTEENTH-CENTURY WILLS NOW ON ZOONIVERSE!📢 A new milestone for our @the_zooniverse site - we've gone back in time⏳& have uploaded new wills 📜dating 1538-1552. Practice your early modern palaeography✍️& read Tudor wills made during the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI

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📢SIXTEENTH-CENTURY WILLS NOW ON ZOONIVERSE!📢 A new milestone for our @the_zooniverse site - we've gone back in time⏳& have uploaded new wills 📜dating 1538-1552. Practice your early modern palaeography✍️& read Tudor wills made during the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI
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Dr Emily Vine - find me @emilymayvine.bsky.social
A short blog post I wrote about some of the wills I looked at during my fellowship at the wonderful @MarshsLibrary in Dublin @materialwills
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Maddock Fellow Dr Emily Vine @EmilyMayVine explores the unlikely survival of 18th century Huguenot wills housed in Marsh's in our latest blogpost #Blog #Fellowship marshlibrary.ie/huguenot-wills/

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Funeral instruction of the day: When Thomas Cherell made his will in 1540, he wanted those who attended his burial to each receive 'one Spice bune and a Cake' 🍰
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🎉HAPPY NEW YEAR!🎉 We're starting 2025 by reflecting on our 'Will of the Month' blog post series - we wrote about a different will every month of 2024 We began in February with London minister Josias Alsop, who died just after the 1666 Great Fire:🧵1/12 sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultur…
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