Wow, thanks for all the excitement about the Unlocking History article! Ready for some more animations, images, resources, and information? Here we go… (article is live here now: nature.com/articles/s4146…) 
First of all, how about a deep dive into a locked letterpacket? Just look how detailed these scans of tiny details can be - we think they are breathtaking!
Remember, this is what we’re seeing from the outside - a closed and sealed document, its internal engineering invisible.
And here is our trunk, rendered in magical photogrammetry by Cultural Heritage Imaging @CHImaging skfb.ly/6Z9GE
Click here to open the trunk and take a peek inside with @misswalsingham nadineakkerman.com/2021/03/01/cli…
Did you realise you can download foldable models of these letters by going to the Supplementary Materials in the article? You can use our YouTube instructional videos and step-by-step diagrams too.
We’re obsessed with backing things up and ensuring longevity so we’ve stored all the research findings, images, illustrations, and more related to this project on @dataverseorg dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/uh. It’s our version of the Brienne trunk, storing documents for the future.
We have also launched a catalogue of the Brienne collection in Early Modern Letters Online @cofktweets @WemloTweets for more fine-grained details (update coming soon): emlo-portal.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/collections/?c…
The archive of the letterlocking project’s working papers has been deposited @MITLibraries so that future scholars can study the development of this field.
Central to this project’s success is the Unlocking History research group, a collection of amazing thinkers and doers whose intelligence, creativity, and wide range of talents has made the project so rich. letterlocking.org/team
Letterlocking has also been developed during nearly 100 hands-on (and now online!) workshops in libraries, archives, universities, and schools in the US and Europe. We learned something new at each one, thanks so much to all participants.
We particularly loved running a Research in Action session @The_Globe where @will_tosh and four outstanding actors helped us lock letters on stage!
You may be interested in joining an online Q&A with the whole research team on Wednesday 3 March at 11am Eastern / 4pm UK time, on our Facebook page facebook.com/letterlockingo…
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