Posts by Amanda Bevan Archives and archivistsCaptures and cargoes: Preying on enemy shipping in the 1740sThursday 24 November 2022The Prize Papers Project has now been running since May 2018, with the team...Archives and archivistsPrizes for all: Volunteering on the Prize Papers ProjectWednesday 11 May 2022Prizes, in nautical parlance, are enemy ships captured in wartime. The glory days of...Records and researchIntroducing the Printed Prize Appeals: Selected examples from HCA 45Tuesday 22 February 2022In the days when wooden ships could be taken by (threat of) force, without...Records and researchShakespeare’s will: a new interpretationTuesday 5 April 2016I’ve been looking in detail at one of our treasures: Shakespeare’s original will. And...Records and researchShakespeare’s daughters and female inheritanceFriday 11 March 2016Legacy was a major concern for Shakespeare - he seems to have had the...
