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Palaeography Tutorial from the National Archives

Palaeography is the study of old handwriting. This is an interactive tutorial with a dunking game to test skills learned. This web tutorial is designed to help people learn to read the handwriting found in documents written in English between 1500 and 1800. Received the Times Higher Awards 2006 for the Most Imaginative Use of Distance Learning

Keywords:: handwriting, Palaeography, 1500 through 1800 documents

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Humanities / History / Topical / Archaeology

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Material Type:: Tutorial
Date Added to MERLOT:: January 25, 2008
Date Modified in MERLOT:: October 24, 2011
Author:: The National Archives (UK)
Submitter:: Deborah W. Proctor, Ph.D.
Primary Audience:: College General Ed

Mobile Compatibility:: Not specified at this time
Language:: English
Cost Involved:: No
Source Code Available:: Unknown
Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States