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Help us transcribe wills from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, and reveal how ownership of, and attitudes towards, objects changed in a period of economic transformation

The Material Culture of Wills: England 1540-1790

If you are familiar with handwriting from this period then you can start by checking machine-generated transcriptions (the 'Checking Transcriptions' workflows) or by transcribing a line from scratch (the 'Transcribing Wills' workflows). Later periods tend to have easier to read handwriting. If you are less familiar with early-modern handwriting or want a refresher then start with the 'Handwriting Training' workflow.
Here is an [introductory video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-mkSoyRLz4) guiding you through the 'Checking Transcriptions' workflow.

The Material Culture of Wills: England 1540-1790

The Material Culture of Wills: England 1540-1790 Statistics

Workflows

Checking Transcriptions - Apprentice - Eighteenth Century

Checking Transcriptions - Master - Eighteenth Century

Checking Transcriptions - Apprentice - Seventeenth Century

Checking Transcriptions - Master - Seventeenth Century

Checking Transcriptions - Apprentice - Sixteenth Century

Checking Transcriptions - Master - Sixteenth Century

Transcribing Wills - Sixteenth Century

Transcribing Wills - Eighteenth Century

Marginalia - Eighteenth Century

Marginalia - Seventeenth Century

Marginalia - Sixteenth Century

The Material Culture of Wills: England 1540-1790 Statistics

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