This is the very first 'teach yourself' book on palaeography, covering all the skills that the genealogist needs to read any document that might be found at any date in English archives. Taking the form of a series of graded exercises in transcription, it works backwards in time from the modern handwriting of the nineteenth century in easy stages to the 'court hands' of the medieval period, focusing on records that are of particular interest to family and local historians. It also provides a unique, self-contained reference guide to palaeography, and to all the different letter forms, symbols and abbreviations that have ever been used in English records.
- ISBN10 0750998776
- ISBN13 9780750998772
- Publish Date 25 August 2022
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint The History Press Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 160
- Language English