A new workshop created using cutting edge optacartography – a technique for transforming flat documents into 3D models – is launched today by The National Archives for students who are blind and visually impaired.It includes three-dimensional versions of historic documents from our collection, including a medieval map and a wage slip for Tudor courtier John Blanke. They are designed to be touched, with raised surfaces that can reproduce features such as churches, houses and moorland on a ...
