My brother Garry has dementia and is currently lost somewhere in the Chester area. If anyone should spot him please call the police on 999. We'd appreciate reposts. @shitchester.bsky.social
14.02.2026 20:00 — 👍 501 🔁 1024 💬 37 📌 21
The will of my dreams!
02.02.2026 18:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Really enjoyed sharing my research at this fantastic event, and am looking forward to many more such evenings in the future!
12.12.2025 14:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The algorithms are making it a lot harder to spread the word about these online talks. Although numbers are still reasonable, it would be a great help if folk were able to give the 30 December event a quick share 🙂
Booking available here:
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11.12.2025 20:03 — 👍 144 🔁 180 💬 7 📌 12
Great update - really looking forward to seeing the transcriptions!
02.12.2025 13:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Grateful to my lovely MCR community at @hmcoxford.bsky.social for giving me the opportunity to share my research with them (albeit online)…sorry to have missed the cake, but great to hear about some really interesting postgrad work at HMC! Thanks to Federico Murgia & MCR committee for the photo.
28.11.2025 19:44 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A! And it’s beautiful 🙂
07.10.2025 17:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In Case You Missed It: Last week we circulated our Autumn 2025 Newsletter 🍂✉️
Want to catch up on what we've been up to recently? You can now read it over on our website 👇
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22.09.2025 09:47 — 👍 7 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Would love the opportunity to talk spoons (I know very little about them but they’re an ever-present feature so have much spoon-learning ahead) 🙂
31.07.2025 09:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Beautiful! And I choose to assume this very spoon is one of the many apostle spoons featuring in the wills I’m working on.
31.07.2025 08:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
So looking forward to using this, can’t wait to run some wills through it!
31.07.2025 08:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This was a great event, thanks to all the @materialwills.bsky.social team for such interesting talks. And it’s not too late to hop onto @zooniverse.bsky.social and do some transcription…
24.07.2025 17:33 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
I loved working (in a very small way!) on the digitisation of more VCH Big Red Books; these volumes are full of fascinating detail and it’s wonderful to see the first is now available online. Another brilliant resource made much more widely available!
21.07.2025 17:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
There's still time to sign up for the @materialwills.bsky.social hybrid transcribathon on Thursday! 📜✍️
Join us online or in person in Exeter, listen to talks from the project team, transcribe alongside like-minded volunteers on @zooniverse.bsky.social
#history #skystorians #earlymodern #tudors
21.07.2025 07:30 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations Emily, can’t wait to read it!
04.06.2025 08:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Great to see this project getting recognition for its transformative work creating an HTR model for the transcription of early modern wills - still lots of fun to be had transcribing and correcting lines on @zooniverse.bsky.social
12.03.2025 18:06 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
These internships are such wonderful opportunities. I learnt so much in the supportive @ihr.bsky.social environment last summer and had a fantastic experience. Wholeheartedly recommend applying!
04.03.2025 09:41 — 👍 10 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
‘Another day, another will’ goes through my head every morning…or on occasion ‘Another day, the same will’.
12.02.2025 17:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is only five minutes from me…so if I can justify staying there it’ll have to be for some sort of ‘research’. Sure I’ll think of something!
06.01.2025 14:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Material Culture of Wills: England 1540-1790 | Zooniverse - People-powered research
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
📢 Early Seventeenth-Century Wills now on Zooniverse! 📢
We've just launched a new batch of wills dating from 1604-1608 📜
You can find these new wills under 'Checking Transcriptions - Master - Seventeenth Century' ✍️⏳
@zooniverse.bsky.social #history #earlymodern
www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs...
02.12.2024 09:25 — 👍 31 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 3
@transkribus.bsky.social is generally coping well with these wills (or those I’ve seen at any rate), but its rendering of 17th October 1786 as ‘W Aatee twols’ suggests dates might need some work! Lots more entertaining material to fill your spare minutes on @materialwills.bsky.social Zooniverse
29.10.2024 19:14 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Loved working on this project and exploring the challenges of digitising the wonderful @vchlondon.bsky.social material. Full of challenges and complexities, but offers new opportunities and is so worth the effort to make these volumes available on @bho.bsky.social.
25.10.2024 13:13 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Material and Digital Archives: The Case of Wills | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society | Cambridge Core
Material and Digital Archives: The Case of Wills
Really enjoyed @emilymayvine.bsky.social and Harry Smith’s article discussing serious issues around access to and quality of digitised sources. Highly recommend a read by anyone working with digital versions of manuscript sources!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
23.10.2024 13:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Had a wonderful time working on this project and learnt so much. Huge thanks to @ihr.bsky.social and particularly @ruthslatter.bsky.social. Can’t wait to see these amazing resources on @bho.bsky.social!
22.10.2024 17:10 — 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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