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The Quill Project

Developing cutting-edge tools to help teachers, lawyers and researchers interpret and teach key historical texts

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How does Quill analyse an historical document?

Think of the process as made up of four elements — people, procedures, documents, and decisions.

This process produces a negotiated text, which is the product of a formal decision-making process where a text has been negotiated and drafted over a period of time.

These negotiations are often conducted over an extensive period of time, with negotiating parties putting forward positions and making small concessions to reach this outcome.

Want to work with us?

Quill is a multidisciplinary research project which aims to enhance understanding of how key negotiated texts of the modern world. It combines a technological approach with the expertise of legal and political historians. Besides software tools and a detailed presentation of primary sources.

Working with Quill as a Postdoc

Dr Eleanor Williams reflects on her Postdoc year with Quill Project Director, Dr Nicholas Cole and discuss how it's been working on the Writing Peace project.

Do you want to be involved in our projects or have a project we might be able to help with?

Looking ahead to 2025

As we approach the end of another busy year, this letter is an opportunity to thank you for your on-going support for Quill’s mission to offer an in- depth, comparative study of the complex negotiations that underpin modern constitutional government.

In this context, Quill has established itself as a mature, international project with a wide portfolio of research and a diverse user base, offering innovative technological and methodological solutions to confront these fundamental issues.

We want to share with you in this letter some of the ways our work has been recognized recently by the award of significant peer-reviewed research council and government grants.