Bath Spa Student program
Created on 07/04/14 by JW
Purpose: To provide information for students on the Bath Spa Humanities at work program
Contents
Week 1
Background Knowledge
Read through the Introduction to the High Court of Admiralty as background to the HCA documents. This will explain what the documents are about what they look like and give you some examples of the writing you will be reading. These are legal documents and so legal language is used, there is also some repetition of phrases which you will learn to recognize
Tasks to complete for your ibook
1. Read though the introduction on the Online Training Activities and some of the transcriptions for HCA 13/71.
2. To gain some background knowledge read through [1], write a brief summary.
3. Read the following page to find out about the calenders used at the time [2]
Read up on 17th century – who was in power? Religious ideas, What was going on in Europe?
SKYPE call to discuss progress with facilitator.
Week 2
Palaeographical skills
This week you will start to develop your palaeographical skills. At first the pages are likely to appear incomprehensible but with practice they will soon start to make sense. One tip, practice little and often is better than leaving long gaps between looking at pages.
Start by reading through the Online Training Activities Task 1 getting started have a go at some of the tasks.
Tasks to complete for your ibook
1. Label image details from [3]
2. Read Blog on nautical terms [4]
