- It's been a busy couple of weeks for the wills project! 📜 Here's a summary of our recent activity🧵: 1/ We recently hosted a @zooniverse.bsky.social progress update webinar 💻 To catch up, you can view the recording here 📼: bsky.app/profile/mate... #citizenscience #history #skystorians 🧵1/6
- If you missed yesterday's Webinar, we've now uploaded the recording 📽️ We talked about: Zooniverse progress (no. of lines of text transcribed) 📈 Interesting bequests found 🧀🐄💍 Creative collaborations 🎵 What we'll do with 25,000 will transcriptions📜✍️ #EarlyModern #skystorians youtu.be/XnNF9j1HfKU
- 2/ Project co-investigator @lsangha.bsky.social was featured on a recent episode of 'That Shakespeare Life' podcast 🎧 👂 Follow the link below to listen 👇: bsky.app/profile/mate... #EarlyModern @uoearchhist.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social @cemsexeter.bsky.social 🧵2/6
- 🔊 WILLS PODCAST! 🔊 @lsangha.bsky.social was interviewed for the latest episode of 'That Shakespeare Life' podcast Laura discusses all things early modern wills 📜, revealing surprising bequests, and insights into Shakespeare's own will ✍️ 🎧 Listen here: www.cassidycash.com/last-will-an... #history
- 3/ Our project was featured on the @transkribus.bsky.social 'Success Stories' blog! Follow the link below to read the blog and find out how our project is using Handwritten Text Recognition 📜✍️ bsky.app/profile/mate... @leverhulme.ac.uk #crowdsourcing 🧵3/6
- We really enjoyed speaking to @transkribus.bsky.social recently, and are delighted to see this write-up of our project. The blog post provides an overview of our project and how we're using Handwritten Text Recognition 📜✍️ @uoearchhist.bsky.social @zooniverse.bsky.social @leverhulme.bsky.social
- 4/ Our Creative Fellow, musician Chris Hoban has published the first of his 'reflection diaries'. 📚 He reflects on his collaboration with the project for the Creative Fellowship 'Wills as Windows onto Past Lives' 📜⏳ bsky.app/profile/mate... 🧵4/6
- "Musician, lyricist and performer Chris Hoban shares the first of his reflection diaries as he collaborates with Dr Laura Sangha on their Creative Fellowship 'Windows as Will onto Past Lives'." www.artsandcultureexeter.co.uk/.../wills-as... [Images: Steven Haywood] @leverhulme.bsky.social
- 5/ We also published our March 'Will of the Month' blog post, which highlights the will of the widow of an East India Company chaplain, who died in Calcutta in 1720📜 You can read this post on our website, along with all our previous posts: bsky.app/profile/mate... 🧵5/6
- 📢 March's 'Will of the Month' post is now live on our blog 📢 This post explores the will of Elizabeth Thomlinson, the widow of an East India Company chaplain. 📜 They both died in Calcutta in 1720, after many years on the South Atlantic island of St Helena 1/3 🧵 sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
- 6/ We're also delighted to be one of of @zooniverse.bsky.social's featured projects on their main homepage 💻🌍 bsky.app/profile/mate... 🧵6/6
- Material Wills 📜 have made the Zooniverse front page! 📰 We're delighted to be one of @zooniverse.bsky.social's featured projects on their main homepage 💻🌍 Find us alongside some other fascinating people-powered research projects 👇 #crowdsourcing #citizenscience #history www.zooniverse.org/projects
