Conservation of a Jane Austen Manuscript Fragment
By Keira McKee At the point of our last update on the blog about the Jane Austen project, we had just completed testing the inks present on the sample of Jane Austen handwriting that the Book...
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Keira was on the BBC a few times today explaining what she’s been doing to the Jane Austen manuscript fragment! See the video here. More to follow soon about treating the iron gall ink.
View ArticleStretch it Out ! Or, How to Flatten Parchment Bundles
By Cécilia Duminuco This blogpost was written with permission of the Master and Fellows of University College, Oxford. During my postgraduate work placement in the Oxford Conservation Consortium, I...
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