Unique wealth of hijacked letters searchable online

Unique wealth of hijacked letters searchable onlineThe Institute for Dutch Lexicologie (INLET, Lead) has a historical and linguistic important collection of more than 1000 ancient letters linguistic enriched and online.
The letters come from the famous collection hijacked scheepspost which more or less recently was rediscovered. In that collection are at least 40,000 letters and documents of the basis of the Dutch overseas, seamen or at home who wrote each other. The letters are in the 17th and 18th century sent, but never arrived. They were made by English hijackers loot. That erfgoedmateriaal is now free online accessible, legible, and quickly and fully searchable. With thanks to an army voluntary transcribers (read: our crowd), linguistic enrichment and advanced search technology. How is that?

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Author: Dries Debackere

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Source language: Nederlands (nl)


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