All our pension forms have now been fully transcribed. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to our project, your help is very much appreciated. Our results page contains some preliminary findings and more can be found on our website and our data mapper.
Education
Use these resources to learn more
Handwriting
The Natural History Museum has a useful short guide to unfamiliar handwriting.
If a word is unclear break it down letter by letter, compare it to other words on the page. There is a useful guide to difficult words according to each letter of the alphabet at http://www.census1891.com/hand-a.php.
History of health and medicine
Wellcome Library: https://wellcomelibrary.org/
NYU LitMed: The Human Condition Curated: http://medhum.med.nyu.edu/
United States National Library of Medicine: https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/
Society of the Social History of Medicine: https://sshm.org/