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Mel Evans
@melevans.bsky.social
Lecturer, lover of language, early modern history, sociolinguistics and digital/tech. Trail runner and occasional duathlete. Vegan. Parent-in-training (7yrs and ongoing, needs work)
Better late than never? Or early birds catching worms?
This Saturday I'm at Uni of Leeds Be Curious festival for the first time. We're inviting people to think proverbially for a new AHRC project on Shakespeare & early modern proverbial culture, w/ Richard Meek and Brotherton cultural collections
May 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Wrangling with OCR text checking this morning. Still a grind but so so much better than it used to be! Only a bit of %£÷£353dfsfgnroa !!! Ddatext stuff ddmsmama !@+÷// to work through
September 16, 2024 at 9:32 AM
Today is the launch event for the Digital Correspondence Community Interest Group!
Join us for 'Conversations about Correspondence' with Julia Gillen, Callum McKean and Niall O'Leary!
See bit.ly/49N9uXu for details and the Zoom link
@drhelennewsome.bsky.social
Digital Correspondence: transhistorical perspectives on language, materials and corpora | UK-Ireland...
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November 22, 2023 at 6:55 AM
Zooming downhill on my way back from Edinburgh. The Tweed looking nice, as ever
November 14, 2023 at 3:18 PM
Off to Edinburgh next week to visit the Library and the Archives. Any tips for productive and fun working? (Other than running up Arthur's seat which I've put in the diary)
November 10, 2023 at 1:18 PM
Delighted to be at the launch event of the Digital Creativity and Cultures Hub at University of Leeds today. It's in a v swanky room, too!
October 11, 2023 at 11:25 AM