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Posts tagged 'forgery'

Fraud, forgery and identity theft in the 1840s

 

PCC Will of Anne Slack 1843 PROB 11/ 1977

Researchers and writers use documents from The National Archives a lot. You will find references to these documents in the footnotes of many a scholarly volume, and we even have a guide to Citing documents in The National Archives.

But some of the documents we hold are fakes or forgeries, and sometimes the fact that they are fakes is what makes them interesting.