Anyone with an internet connection can volunteer to transcribe historical documents and help make the archives' digital catalog more accessible ...

The National Archives is currently looking for volunteers who have the ability to read cursive writing to help them ...

If this is not an indication that we need to teach cursive handwriting in school ... By the time I was writing prescriptions, it was “P Mauer” except on legal documents such as my will.

But the letters of ordinary people, preserved on papyri in Egypt, show us what they were thinking and doing. Human nature, their contents suggest, hasn’t changed much. Sometime in the 3rd ...