This came through on my social media feed this week
The National Archives in the U.K. has started a partially crowd-sourced project titled The Material Culture of Wills: England 1540-1790. The web site describes the project thus:
This is a four-year research project funded by the Leverhulme Trust that seeks to understand how people's attitudes towards material objects changed between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. This period saw extensive social and economic change as England and Wales transformed from a nation of peasant farmers into an industrial nation fully integrated into global trade. We know much about how the ownership of goods changed in this period, but relatively little about people's relationship to their possessions, how they understood them and the meaning they attributed to goods. This project uses an unprecedentedly large sample of wills to investigate this issue.
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