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English handwriting
http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/ehoc/
This site from Cambridge University concentrates on English Handwriting from the period 1500-1700.

www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/palaeography/
This is the palaeography tuition part of the website of the National Archives (London) and includes tuition in Latin palaeography as well as English handwriting for 1500-1800.

http://paleo.anglo-norman.org/
This site from Leicester University contains sample images, tutorials and extensive bibliographies in relation to both medieval and early modern handwriting.

Palaeography
www.jaydax.co.uk/genlinks/palaeography.html

A limited resource with some interesting information for would-be palaeographers.

Transcribe Bentham
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/transcribe-bentham/
TAn innovative crowd-sourcing project to transcribe the manuscripts of the philospher Jeremy Betham (1748-1832).

Dictionary of the Scottish Language
www.dsl.ac.uk/
An online Scots dictionary, which is useful for those troubled by Scots words.

Scottish Language Dictionaries
www.scotsdictionaries.org.uk
This website gives information on the production of Scots dictionaries.