Can you READ OLD HANDWRITING and could you understand OLD ENGLISH if you had a time machine and could go back and hear it? In today’s video from History Calling, I’m going to show you examples of real letters written by famous historical figures (and a few who weren’t so famous) to give you a flavour of what their handwriting and speech were both like and to let you test your palaeography abilities (palaeography is the study of old handwriting and manuscripts). We’ll start in the nineteenth century and work out way backwards to the tenth using documents including a request for a Christmas meal at a workhouse, Jane Austen’s will, arrangements for the funeral of Queen Anne, the records of a witchcraft trial, a desperate letter written by the future Elizabeth I, a sweet little note from Lady Margaret Beaufort to her son, Henry VII, the Knight’s Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer and the Beowulf epic. I’ll also share some tips and tricks for reading old documents which I picked up whilst studying for my PhD and during my postdoctoral research and show you the differences between good handwriting and bad handwriting in different time periods. This will also function as an old handwriting tutorial and you’ll get to see some gorgeous old illuminated manuscripts.
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