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





📢 Important Announcement 📢 We'll be leaving Twitter / X in the next couple of weeks. To keep up to date with out project, you can find us on Bluesky @materialwills.bsky.social, or you can check out our website: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultur…



📢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





📢WILLS PROJECT NOW LIVE ON ZOONIVERSE 📢 Using cutting edge technology we've generated transcriptions of 25,000 wills, now we need your help to check & correct them! zooniverse.org/projects/hjsmi… 🧵1/ #History #twitterstorians #EarlyModern @LeverhulmeTrust @UkNatArchives

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/




