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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

2026 is the 550th anniversary of England's first printer, William Caxton, establishing his printing press in Westminster, London. To celebrate, the Bibliographical Society is hosting a series of videos from libraries in the UK and around the world introducing viewers to items printed by Caxton ...

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2026 is the 550th anniversary of England's first printer, William Caxton, establishing his printing press in Westminster, London. To celebrate, the Bibliogra...

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ICAME48 @icame48.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#ICAME48 We are now also receiving abstract submissions! (deadline: 1 December 2006). More details on this call and on our previous call for pre-conference workshops (deadline: 31 October 2026) here www.helsinki.fi/en/conferenc...

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The conference theme is The Times They Are A-Changin'. We invite all submissions on corpus-based approaches to English, and especially abstracts addressing the theme of the conference, such as submiss...

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Sophie Coulombeau @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I was chuffed to be asked to write the entry for Mary Hamilton (1756-1816)in the Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Romantic-Era Women's Writing. Do check it out (or contact me) if you want a bang up to date overview of Hamilton's life, writing, & relevant scholarship. link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

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Mary Hamilton (1756–1816) was one of the most well-connected and highly cultured women in late eighteenth-century British polite society. She was a courtier, diarist, antiquarian, and active member of the Bluestocking circle. Although her writing was never published during her lifetime, she was a prolific writer in several genres. She kept detailed diaries of her daily life, social engagements, and travels, wrote probably thousands of letters to her friends and acquaintances, compiled manuscript books of poetry and prose, and made catalogues of the collections of her eminent friends. A careful archivist and antiquarian, she left behind a vast and valuable archive of over 3000 written items, which has recently been fully digitized as The Mary Hamilton Papers. Hamilton was a pivotal figure in the dynamic manuscript culture of the Bluestocking circle during the 1780s, and was herself a skilled life writer across a range of forms and media. In particular, her extant correspondence reveals a wily, adroit, and flexible epistolary artist, capable of adopting different voices, techniques, strategies and personae to achieve specific ends. In the past, her reputation as an author has suffered from a critical presumption that print publication is a prerequisite for literary significance. However, if we accept manuscript culture and life writing as crucial elements of the literary landscape of late eighteenth-century Britain, Mary Hamilton emerges as an important and often innovative figure whose achievements invite us to re-scope our understanding of literature itself.

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Sophie Coulombeau @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Want to hear from an A-level student who has direct experience of these materials (f/ Uni of York summer school 'taster' session used to pilot them)? "Absolutely wonderful, kept me so engaged throughout the entire session... I was captivated. It made me excited for university-style teaching!"

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Sophie Coulombeau @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Please help us spread awareness of these free resources far & wide. Re-skeet, share with teacher contacts, re-post to other forms of social media - we'd really appreciate it. On behalf of whole @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social, thank you! (/end)

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Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The online edition of the Mary Hamilton Papers is finally getting its long-expected major refresh on 5 June: numerous corrections to transcriptions and mark-up, revisions to person identifications and improved tooltips, plus about 100 items newly transcribed. Watch for announcement! #18thC #langsky

Example of tooltip for 'Miss Boyle' in HAM/1/15/1/20

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Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

The Mary Hamilton Papers is much refreshed: full details & blog on our project website. New transcriptions, improved personography, more x-refs, many corrections. A striking example is the letter HAM/1/9/116, whose interpretation, authors, recipients and places have all been revised! #18thC #langsky

Harriet Bandinel's humorous report of Anna Maria Clarke's behaviour in HAM/1/9/116

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Open Research at York @uoyopenres.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

New Open Research in Practice case study: @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social describes how an innovative, open access digital edition of the archive of Bluestocking writer Mary Hamilton (1756-1816) enabled new research and public engagement 📜🪶🔓 uoy.atlassian.net/wiki/x/awBEIQ

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ilingua-uvigo @ilingua-uvigo.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Aberto o prazo de inscrición para a microcredencial "Corrección de textos literarios y docentes en español" dirixida por M. Ribao. Trátase dunha formación de curta duración para detectar e corrixir os erros habituais nos textos literarios e/ou docentes en español. cpfp.uvigo.gal/gl/estudos/t...

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ilingua-uvigo @ilingua-uvigo.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Os próximos 1 e 2 de outubro terá lugar o XXII Encontro de morfólogos na Universidade de Vigo. Xa podes enviar a túa proposta de comunicación ou póster ata o 1 de xuño de 2026. Máis información na súa web: encontro.morfoloxia.2026.webs.uvigo.gal

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Cambridge University Press - Linguistics @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · 08/01/2026

Out now! Rutten's Historical Sociolinguistics | With detailed explanations of core concepts, this is the first introduction to historical sociolinguistics based on multiple languages. Find out more: ☑️ cup.org/4jg540r

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Cambridge University Press - Linguistics @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · 18/12/2025

An in-depth volume tracking change in the English language and the role which internal and external factors played throughout history. The New Cambridge History of the English Language, Vol 3: Transmission, Change, ed. Joan C. Beal, Out Now cup.org/4oFojBu #Linguistics #LangSky 🐦🐦

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Cambridge Core - History of the English Language - The New Cambridge History of the English Language

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Cambridge University Press - Linguistics @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · 10/12/2025

The first 3 volumes of the The New Cambridge History of the English Language are out now! Vol 1: Context, Contact and Development: cup.org/44J8ouY Vol 2: Documentation, Sources of Data and Modelling: cup.org/3Mv2siU Vol 3: Transmission, Change and Ideology: cup.org/44gKqaf

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Sophie Coulombeau @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

If you're interested in Frances Burney, bluestocking beef, the cult of *intense* young ladies who worshipped Mary Delany, or my continued efforts to solve archival mysteries in a deerstalker hat, here's 'A generous Rival? Mary Hamilton and Frances Burney'. pure.york.ac.uk/portal/en/pu...

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Sophie Coulombeau @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

If you're into historic reading practices, applying digital methods to manuscript life writing, the tricky question of defining literary genre, here's 'The Tip of the Iceberg: Reading Practices in Mary Hamilton’s archive, 1783-4' (co-auth with @crulph.bsky.social): pure.york.ac.uk/portal/en/pu...

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The Tip of the Iceberg: Reading Practices in Mary Hamilton’s archive, 1783-1784

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Sophie Coulombeau @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Now Anne-Christine Gardner w/ 'Self-Corrections as Indexes of Social Relationships: Observations From Mary Hamilton's Correspondence With Frances Burney (1783–1789)'. Anne & I take complementary approaches to the same material: IMHO it's a fun conversation! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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This article explores how social relationships are developed and conveyed through correspondence, with a particular focus on self-corrections in the surviving letters from Mary Hamilton (1756–1816) to Frances Burney (1752–1840). The findings show that the more closely connected the writer feels with the recipient, the more self-corrections are deemed socially acceptable. Engaging in interdisciplinary dialogue with Coulombeau's (this issue) assessment of Hamilton and Burney's complex and evolving relationship, this essay underlines the importance of self-corrections for the study of handwritten documents as well as social relationships and networks in the past.

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Sophie Coulombeau @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Then, er, it's me again! In 'A ‘generous Rival’? Mary Hamilton and Frances Burney', I use archival & digital approaches to solve the mystery of why Hamilton loved Burney but Burney loathed Hamilton. The answer is one to which many novelists may relate. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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This article combines close reading of manuscript correspondence with digital analysis of reading practices to trace literary and sociable interactions between the Bluestocking writers Frances Burney and Mary Hamilton between 1782 and 1796. I argue that Burney's well-established dislike of Hamilton was motivated by the (accurate) perception that Hamilton was a shallow and disingenuous reader of her novels, more interested in capitalizing on Burney's celebrity than appreciating her work. Hamilton and Burney's differing characters as readers and writers sat uneasily together, compromising their friendship's potential — a conclusion that can only be reached by combining traditional archival research with digital scholarship.

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Sophie Coulombeau @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

But most of all, to @historyhannahb.bsky.social for leading the project and to my wonderful Co-Investigators and co-editors David Denison and @nuriyabo.bsky.social for the teamwork. Nuria in particular has been the powerhouse behind this volume, and we'd be nowhere without her.

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Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

At last our special issue, JECS 48.4, is out, all 200+ pages of it! We're very proud of it. Thanks are due to many colleagues, but especially Nuria Yáñez-Bouza for proof-correcting heroics, and the general editor, Emrys Jones, for brilliant support throughout. #18thC #langsky

Cover of JECS special issue 48.4 (December 2025), with ToC and network diagram. DOI: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17540208/2025/48/4

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Sophie Coulombeau @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

ALSO OPEN ACCESS is our 1st article, 'Reconstructing Mary Hamilton's Social Networks', by David Denison & Tino Oudesluijs, who present an innovative method for reconstructing social networks from ms letters-connecting not just correspondents but mentionees too onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Mary Hamilton's relationships and networking practices are central to this special issue. In this article, we present an innovative method for reconstructing social networks around Hamilton during five key periods of her life, connecting not just correspondents but also persons frequently mentioned in The Mary Hamilton Papers. We explain our methodology and present visualizations of the networks. By tabulating Hamilton's strongest relationships in each phase of her life, we can trace a selection of relationships over time. We reflect on the benefits and limitations of our approach, inviting expert judgement on its results and its potential for wider use.

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Sophie Coulombeau @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Also OPEN ACCESS is the Introduction, co-authored by @nuriyabo.bsky.social, David Denison, and myself. Here we situate @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social in context of other 18thc digital initiatives, & highlight key findings of the contributions to the vol. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This article offers an overview of the research project Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers (2019–2023) — the impetus for this special issue — and positions it within the field of eighteenth-century studies. After outlining the project's genesis, we describe one of its core outputs, the digital edition of Mary Hamilton's archive, providing key technical information which is referenced in the articles that follow. We then summarize the contents of the special issue, reflect on answers to the project's original research questions that the authors provide, and highlight key synergies and themes.

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Sophie Coulombeau @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

The OPEN ACCESS Foreword, by Hannah Barker & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, is a great place to start. It introduces Hamilton, her archive, & previous relevant scholarship. It also acknowledges the crucial contributions of many other folk, esp @thejohnrylands.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This foreword provides core biographical information about Mary Hamilton and tells the story of the archive she left behind. It presents a brief overview of the scholarship addressing Mary Hamilton before the research project Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers (2019–2023), and shows how the resulting digital edition has stimulated a new interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary wave of research that is able to exploit the archive holistically. The academic contributions to the project are contextualized by acknowledging the immensely important labour of curators, archivists, photographers, and digital specialists, among others.

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Sophie Coulombeau @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

It's here! Our special issue of JECS (journal of @bsecs.bsky.social), a bumper vol of cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on 18c networks, gender, sociability & manuscript, deriving from @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social project. I'll be skeeting today about the contributions in turn...stay tuned!

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ilingua-uvigo @ilingua-uvigo.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

En menos dunha semana imos desfrutar dun programa cheo de cousas interesantes. Bótalle unha ollada na web ciil25.webs.uvigo.es/programa/ . Vémonos o xoves en Redeiras!

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Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Two imminent developments from the Mary Hamilton Papers team: a special issue in JECS, and a major refresh of the edition (transcriptions, mark-up, personography), both probably live online in November. Watch this space! #18thC #langsky

Abbreviated Table of Contents for special issue of JECS

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Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Mary Hamilton and her networks: Gender, sociability, manuscript. Important (we would think so, wouldn't we?) special issue of JECS, now in copy-editing. Intro + 4 research papers by the team (see www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/further-read...) + 5 outside contributions. #18thC #langsky

Reconstruction of Mary Hamilton's social network Dec 1782 – July 1785. See https://www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/networks/

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Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Among 100+ newer/older/unknown words for the OED in the Hamilton Papers are jerry 'hen-pecked husband', jerryism, Benedict 'newly married', hub. Derogatory frump, quiz 'eccentric person'. Playful astoundation, terrificability. Specialised casaquin, clavicello, quipu. #Linguistics #18thC #c18th

Quipu in the Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland, Ohio

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Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

More for the OED: bas bleu, indigo (in humorous reference to Bluestocking views), dissertation 'debate', haut ton. Chaperon and dirty (as verbs), moonshine (adjective), a bundle of nerves, jargonic, lucet, parliamenteering, spa toilet, strongle, tarot. #Linguistics #18thC #c18th

Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827), Breaking Up of the Blue Stocking Club. Etching, hand-colored (London: Thomas Tegg, 1815. NYPL, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle)

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Sofia Rüdiger @sofiaruediger.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Raymond Hickey now introduces the New Cambridge History of the English Language - 6 volumes & 227 contributors - coming soon www.cambridge.org/core/series/... #ISLE8

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Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

_Notable_ adj. once had meanings to do with household management. Mary Hamilton often applies it to her (needle)work, slightly antedating OED, while Lady Dartrey mentions 'a good notable woman', i.e. competent in household matters. News to me, but not (I bet) to some of you. #18thC #langsky

British Pillow, late 17th–early 18th century, silk on linen, Metropolitan Museum of Art, wikidata:Q160236
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Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Christine, Nuria, Sophie and David have all given Hamilton-related talks (www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/conference-s...) in the last few months, and revision of the edition continues in the background. September will bring some major developments.

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Conference/Seminar Talks - Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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Sofia Rüdiger @sofiaruediger.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Quick reminder that the ICAME journal is available open access (for everybody): icame.info/icame-journal/ #ICAME46 📚

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HEL (History of the English Language) on the Web @helontheweb.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

8th International Prescriptivism Conference 24-26 June 2026 Vrije Universiteit Brussel @vubrussel.bsky.social www.historicalsociolinguistics.be/prescriptivi...

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Prescriptivism Conference – Historical sociolinguistics

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Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers has won a York Open Research Award for 2025! (and uoy.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/... gives 3 good reasons why 😀)

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Sophie Coulombeau @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

V pleased & proud to be at the awards lunch for @uoyopenres.bsky.social York Open Research Awards, funded by Research England. I accepted an award on behalf of the dream team at Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk The other awardees’ projects were amazing!

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Open Research at York @uoyopenres.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Sophie's blogpost 'This is not a love story' explored the dynamics of correspondence between Hamilton and George IV, which gained attention including wider media coverage and a BBC Radio 3 feature The resource was also embedded into open access classroom materials for teaching A-Level English 👩‍🏫

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This is not a love story: Mary Hamilton and George IV - Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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Sophie Coulombeau @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

So pleased and proud that our research has been recognised in the York Open Research Awards! Thanks to brilliant team inc. @historyhannahb.bsky.social @crulph.bsky.social & others not On Here. Find out more about the research & edition here: www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk

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