Decoding 19th-Century Handwriting - Plymouth Antiquarian Society

Guest Post by Sofie Koonce, PAS Intern One of my internship projects is transcribing the Russell family journal. This manuscript was for many years misidentified as the journal of just one person: Catherine Elliott Russell (1840-1916). A closer look reveals that it was kept by multiple members of the Russell family, who would take turns Read more »

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Free online palaeography resources

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