Teach Yourself Palaeography: A Guide for Genealogists and Local Historians

Teach Yourself Palaeography is the first teach-yourself book on palaeography, covering skills to read English archives from the nineteenth century to the medieval period. It provides a unique reference guide to letter forms, symbols, and abbreviations used in English records, with graded exercises in transcription.

Format: Paperback / softback
Publication date: 29 September 2022
Publisher: The History Press Ltd

This groundbreaking work 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. Using a series of graded exercises in transcription, Teach Yourself Palaeography works backwards in time in easy stages from the modern handwriting of the nineteenth century to the court hands of the medieval period, focusing on records that are of particular interest to family and local historians. The book 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.

This groundbreaking work 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. Using a series of graded exercises in transcription, Teach Yourself Palaeography works backwards in time in easy stages from the modern handwriting of the nineteenth century to the court hands of the medieval period, focusing on records that are of particular interest to family and local historians. The book 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.

This groundbreaking work 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. Using a series of graded exercises in transcription, Teach Yourself Palaeography works backwards in time in easy stages from the modern handwriting of the nineteenth century to the court hands of the medieval period, focusing on records that are of particular interest to family and local historians. The book 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.

This groundbreaking work 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. Using a series of graded exercises in transcription, Teach Yourself Palaeography works backwards in time in easy stages from the modern handwriting of the nineteenth century to the court hands of the medieval period, focusing on records that are of particular interest to family and local historians. The book 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.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780750998772