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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📢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/hjsm…
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📢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!🪑🥄👞
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ALT A composite image showing a range of different early modern objects – similar to the wide range of objects found in Denton’s will. Individual images © Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2024 and © The Trustees of the British Museum
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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/hjsm…
We've recently added NEW Tudor wills from 1538-155⏳ #history
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A reminder that this account will be leaving Twitter / X shortly.
Details of where to find us below 👇
📢 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/materialc…
ALT A screenshot of 'The Material Culture of Wills Project' profile page on Bluesky
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📢NEW WILL OF THE MONTH📢
January's will📜was identified by our Zooniverse volunteers
This Berkshire gentleman left >50 bequests (it was difficult to chose what to write about) including items engraved with family names & coats of arms⏳
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialc…
#twitterstorians
ALT A steel knife with a coat of arms on the handle, c.1550 https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O109908/knife-unknown/ © Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2024
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📢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
📢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
ALT A screenshot of a Tudor will on our Zooniverse site - black and white text in sixteenth-century 'secretary hand' style handwriting.
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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
ALT A screenshot of a Tudor will on our Zooniverse site - black and white text in sixteenth-century 'secretary hand' style handwriting.
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You can check out this new batch of sixteenth-century wills 📃on our Zooniverse site now: zooniverse.org/projects/hjsm…
@LeverhulmeTrust @UniofExeterNews
#history #twitterstorians #citizenscience #Tudors
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The Material Culture of Wills Project retweeted
21 Jan 2025
After transcribing over 25,000 wills with Transkribus, this project at @UniofExeter is looking for volunteers to proofread the transcriptions. More info 👇
📢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/hjsm…
🧵1/ #History #twitterstorians #EarlyModern @LeverhulmeTrust @UkNatArchives
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The Material Culture of Wills Project retweeted
A short blog post I wrote about some of the wills I looked at during my fellowship at the wonderful @MarshsLibrary in Dublin @materialwills
14 Jan 2025
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-wil…
ALT Detail of an 18th century will
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📢 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/materialc…
ALT A screenshot of 'The Material Culture of Wills Project' profile page on Bluesky
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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/materialc…
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In December 2024 we had a Christmas-themed 'Will of the Month' post 🎅🎄⛄
We looked at the 1786 will of Somerset Spinster Mary Partridge, and whether it could be tied in with the 'Twelve Days of Christmas' 🍐🌳
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We hope you enjoyed reading our 'Will of the Month' posts for 2024 🎉
We'll continue them throughout 2025, and we also regularly post about other project updates and news - so watch this space: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialc…
#twitterstorians #history #earlymodern
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