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madrobinsThis is cool. It's a website that will, among other things, give you tuition in how to read the handwriting found in manuscripts from the Tudor-late Georgian era. English manuscripts, at least. I just worked my way through a letter from Princess Elizabeth to Queen Mary ("I'm not a traitor, I'm not I'm not, and if I could just see you in person we could work all this out!"). There are ten different documents in ten different styles, and each one has characteristics of its time and place. If no one sees me for a couple of days, I'll be decoding other people's correspondence.
There's also a tutorial, elsewhere on the National Archives site, that will teach you Latin enough to read public documents from roughly 1066 until they stopped using Latin for public documents. Seriously, you guys may never hear from me again.
There's also a tutorial, elsewhere on the National Archives site, that will teach you Latin enough to read public documents from roughly 1066 until they stopped using Latin for public documents. Seriously, you guys may never hear from me again.