History of Letters

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Philately and Postal History web site was intended for philatelists, postal historians, and philatelic societies to communicate, find out about events, and find links to dealers and auction houses. Through this site you are also able to track National and International events.

http://www.philatelyandpostalhistory.com/      

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The Society has approximately 180 members worldwide and regular contact with all members is maintained through the quarterly journal, The Scottish Post. Their aim is to help everyone, whether an internationally renowned postal historian, a dealer, or a relative beginner, to enjoy and better understand the rich diversity of Scotland's postal services past and present.

http://www.sphs.org.uk/      

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Postal History is a resource for collectors of United States and worldwide postal history. This site offers tens of thousands of covers for sale, focusing on United States town cancels and 20th century postal history.

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This resource provides with medieval manuscript manual. It should offer basic information on the topic medieval manuscripts to be comprehended and utilized also by non-specialists in the field. It might be applied as general background knowledge, teaching module, and distance learning unit for the description of specific surviving objects of European medieval cultural heritage, and for the composition of appropriate multi-media applications to serve a wider international public.

http://www.ceu.hu/medstud/manual/MMM/      

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This resource is a guide and web directory to Egyptian hieroglyphic, also called correctly hieroglyphs. On this site you will find essays introducing Egyptian hieroglyphs, essays on Champollion and the Rosetta stone, dozens of on-line self-teaching programs, a half-dozen translators, Hieroglyphic fonts, software, and so forth.

http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/hieroglyphs/      

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Trivia-Library is a collection of interesting and useful articles on literally hundreds of different topics. From this resource you will get to know the history of Graffiti, origins and meanings, uses and reasons behind graffiti. Also here is examples and graffiti as art, examples of dialogue, about Kilroy.

http://www.trivia-library.com/history-types-of-graffiti/      

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The purpose of this site is to provide users with history of lettering, the invention of the alphabet and its development. Every primitive people had a language, and something resembling writing, such as stone momentos, courier staffs or pieces of wood as account sheets. You can read more interesting and helpful information on this site.

http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~wolfthun/calhist.htm      

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Studioarts gives a general overview of the history of lettering. Alphabet of 26 letters is the result of centuries of changes in writing. Many of letter shapes, in fact, originated with Egyptian hieroglyphics. The chart on the site shows how some of the letter shapes developed from hieroglyphics into the modern forms.

http://www.studioarts.net/calligraphy/c2.htm      

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From the late Old Kingdom to the late New Kingdom there survived about fifteen letters written to relatives who had recently died. Although there are so few sources for the practice, they range widely enough in time and in geographical spread, to suggest that they reflect a broader custom of communication. They provide compelling evidence for the strength of belief in a life after death.

http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/literature/religious/      
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This site is an online interactive tutorial to teach how to read old handwriting and learn about the subject and skills of palaeography. The tutorial will concentrate on British documents and cover the period 1500-1800. 10 documents, in order of difficulty, can be transcribed interactively online. Each of the 10 documents has a unique alphabet, a transcription, a digital image which can be zoomed very closely and a comprehensive glossary.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/palaeography/      

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