Join us for FREE workshops for #HeritageOpenDays! Come & see examples of manuscripts, maps, accounts and books which all intertwine to tell a global story with #ExeterCathedral at its heart on 11 & 13 September. Book your free place at bit.ly/HOD24-ec Exeter City of Literature

A really useful resource for early modern traching:

**10 will transcriptions** More teaching resources: the The Material Culture of Wills Project project team have been tagging all our blog posts which include a full transcription of an #EarlyModern will - 10 so far, more will follow! #History #twitterstorians sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultur…

i like that the headline implies this is a Met Office punishment

What can STEM students gain from a greater focus on the history of their subject? And what do historians learn from collaborating in STEM subject teaching? Laura Harrison discusses her recent collaborative project, funded by an RHS Teaching Fellowship bit.ly/3MwAqAe

Ganesh Chaturthi – a vibrant Hindu festival – is being celebrated at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter tinyurl.com/c6t7s933

10 Sept 1604: d. William Morgan Bishop of St. Asaph #otd Maker of the first full translation of the #Bible 1588 into #Welsh #Cymraeg (NLW)

The Pater Familias, study for a print; an interior with the grand/father carefully feeding baby, watched by the wife who holds some laundry in front of the fire-place Adriaen van Ostade, c. 1648. A side of 17thC masculinity you don't often see depicted. (British Museum)

A Vanitas Still Life with a Flag, Candlestick, Musical Instruments, Books, Writing Paraphernalia, Globes and Hourglass. Edwaert Collier, 1662. (Art Institute Chicago)

If you, like me, can’t think about next summer during summer, think about it now instead!! CFP for our SRS biennial conference, hosted by Bristol. Interdisciplinary, expansive, and friendly, this is a great forum for new work!

A few project updates for you: Our autumn newsletter will be sent out soon, so if you would like a copy in your inbox sign up to the mailing list here: forms.office.com/e/JbUEq4Za1u 1/ #EarlyModern #twitterstorians #History

Our big news is that our site has been officially approved as a Zooniverse project! We will be launching our call for volunteer transcribers in the near future, so expect lots more on that quite soon ... 2/ #EarlyModern #Historians #History #Crowdsourcing #Zooniverse

We've also spruced up the website, adding an Honours Board of Expert Volunteers who produced the data to train our Handwritten Text Recognition model. On this page you can also get a taster of some of the things they found in their wills #EarlyModern 3/ sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultur…

Finally, we now have a set of 10 'wills of the month' on our blog. These posts explore some of the documents that catch our eye and provide full transcriptions of each one. #EarlyModern #twitterstorians #History 4/4 sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultur…