Tools: Week Two Autumn
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Week Two goals
(1) To understahnd the Court process, legal document types, and the uses to which historians have put the Court records
(2) To start work on learning to read and transcribed Court depositions
(3) To discuss how best to practice reading and transcribing and to support each other
Introduction to the High Court of Admiralty
- Blakemore/Marsden/Steckley articles
- Legal process
- The archive/document types
Starting out with paleography & MarineLives editorial policy
- More on the edit box: page structure and the examination books
- Common transcription pitfalls: MINIMs, shorthand & expansions, capitalization, toponyms, punctuation, the gutter
- Tips
Team practice pages
- Team practice pages
Homework
- To be discussed during the call
