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See what you can find: zooniverse.org/projects/hjsmi… ⌛️Complete as many lines as you like in your own time✍️Learn & practice palaeography with our Field Guide 📈Register on Zooniverse to track your contributions 👄Visit Talk Boards to chat to us & other volunteers 📜 Join in now!

🎅 Want to keep busy over Christmas?🎅 Why not head over to our The Zooniverse site and have a go at reading and correcting transcriptions of Tudor, Stuart, & Georgian wills - just like Mary Partridge's will 📜✍️ #CitizenScience #history #twitterstorians zooniverse.org/projects/hjsmi…

🎄 ❄️🎅⛄ In Case You Missed It - we've got a NEW, Christmassy, 'Will of the Month' post over at The Material Culture of Wills Project ! December's post looks at the 1786 will 📜 of Mary Partridge, with a loosely 'Twelve Days of Christmas' theme... 🕺🥁🦢💍🦃🌳 #twitterstorians #history

Interested in historic documents?📜 Want to improve your reading of old handwriting?✍️ Enjoy bite-sized puzzles like Wordle? Looking for a new challenge over Christmas?🎄🎅 Help us transcribe 25,000 Tudor, Stuart & Georgian wills on Zooniverse:zooniverse.org/projects/hjsmi… 1/

⌛️Complete as many lines as you like in your own time ✍️Learn & practice palaeography with our Field Guide 📈Register on Zooniverse to track your contributions 👄Visit Talk Boards to chat to us & other volunteers 🗃️ #twitterstorians #EarlyModern #CitizenScience #history 2/

Not sure how to get started, or want to find out more? Have a look at our introductory YouTube video, which provides a guide to our Zooniverse site for complete beginners: youtube.com/watch?v=q-mkSo… 3/

Or have a look at the recording of our recent Zooniverse launch webinar📽️📼: youtube.com/watch?v=ftipRi… In the webinar project team members gave an overview of the project, and explained how to get started with bite-sized transcription checking tasks ✍️📜 4/

With your help we can create transcriptions of the largest ever sample of wills & explore how ownership of, & attitudes towards objects changed in England 1540-1790. Join in now! zooniverse.org/projects/hjsmi… #skystorians #EarlyModern #CitizenScience 🧵5/5

Over at The Material Culture of Wills Project we're marking the New Year by reflecting on our 2024 'Will of the Month' blog post series. If you missed any at the time, they're all linked in the thread below: 👇 #twitterstorians #history #earlymodern

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' 🍰

📢 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 The Material Culture of Wills Project.bsky.social, or you can check out our website: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultur…

A short blog post I wrote about some of the wills I looked at during my fellowship at the wonderful Marsh's Library in Dublin The Material Culture of Wills Project

Like many - I'll be leaving Twitter / X for good in the next couple of weeks. You can find me on Bluesky, along with the The Material Culture of Wills Project project.

If you are sleeping rough, you can still be fined up to £1,000 under the Vagrancy Act. This is unjustifiable in 21st century Britain. What’s going on!? 🧵 1/7

📢 TUDOR WILLS klaxon! 📢 The The Material Culture of Wills Project team have gone back in time ⏳ to the sixteenth century, and uploaded a batch of wills 📜dating 1538-1552 to the Zooniverse site: zooniverse.org/projects/hjsmi…

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

January's 'Will of the Month' post is live over at The Material Culture of Wills Project The will 📜 is over 3000 words long, and has >50 bequests - difficult to narrow down to just a few featured objects 🪑🥄 Thanks to our Sebastian. volunteers who flagged it! #twitterstorians #earlymodern

📢In Case You Missed It📢 January's Will of the Month Post is now live on our project blog! It's the will of a Berkshire gentleman who left >50 bequests - so many objects are mentioned that we didn't know what to write about!🪑🥄👞 sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultur… #twitterstorians

This fascinating will📜was first flagged by our The Zooniverse volunteers. To have a go at reading early modern wills✍️and seeing what you can find, have a look at our Zooniverse site: zooniverse.org/projects/hjsmi… We've recently added NEW Tudor wills from 1538-155⏳ #history