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CAMBRIDGE C UNIVERSITY

w english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/ehoc The T university offers free online instruction in in English handwriting, 1500–1700, 15 which includes some 30 3 transcription exercises, graded by b level of difficulty.

EXETER UNIVERSITY

w tinyurl.com/exeter-depo

View 80 digitised and fully transcribed depositions relating to 20 cases that were heard in the church courts and quarter sessions between 1556 and 1694 across the counties of Devon, Hampshire, Somerset and Wiltshire.

NATIONAL RECORDS OF SCOTLAND

w scottishhandwriting.com

This online tutorial based on Scottish documents includes many examples and transcriptions, plus there is a weekly poser for fun to help you to improve your palaeography skills.

THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES

w nationalarchives.gov.uk/ palaeography

The website of The National Archives at Kew has a practical online tutorial on reading old handwriting, 1500–1800. There is also a useful introduction to reading Latin in old documents with a series of lessons on different topics plus various resources at nationalarchives.gov.uk/latin.

UNIVERSITY OF HULL

w tinyurl.com/hull-palaeog

This is another useful guide, and includes exercises and tutorials to help you make progress.

YALE UNIVERSITY

w tinyurl.com/yale-handwriting Kathryn James created this guide to Secretary hand in August 2020 while she was a curator at Yale University’s Beinecke Library. The guide is written as a sevenday introductory course, with two quizlets and 10 reading exercises, and covers such topics as numbers, money and abbreviations.