At The National Archives, we don’t just study what the documents housed here say. Technical analysis of the materials that make them also allows us to glimpse future possibilities for research.
Analysis of the will of William Shakespeare, for example, in preparation for the By Me William Shakespeare exhibition, has focused on both the ink and the paper. This may help divine different stages of the process of drafting and issuing individual records.
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