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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

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The New Cambridge History of the English Language
Cambridge Core - History of the English Language - The New Cambridge History of the English Language
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December 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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The first 3 volumes of the The New Cambridge History of the English Language are out now!

Vol 1: Context, Contact and Development: https://cup.org/44J8ouY
Vol 2: Documentation, Sources of Data and Modelling: https://cup.org/3Mv2siU
Vol 3: Transmission, Change and Ideology: https://cup.org/44gKqaf
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December 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social
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...
A 'Generous Rival'? Mary Hamilton and Frances Burney
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December 15, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social
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...
The Tip of the Iceberg: Reading Practices in Mary Hamilton’s archive, 1783-1784
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December 15, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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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/...
Abstract 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.
November 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social
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/...
Abstract 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.
November 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social
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.
November 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social
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
November 21, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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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
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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.
November 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social
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.
November 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social
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.
November 21, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social
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!
maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social · Nov 21
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
November 21, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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ilingua-uvigo.bsky.social
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!
November 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social
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
October 20, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social
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/
September 5, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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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
August 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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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)
August 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Raymond Hickey now introduces the New Cambridge History of the English Language - 6 volumes & 227 contributors - coming soon www.cambridge.org/core/series/...
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The New Cambridge History of the English Language
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September 2, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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_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 https://www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/view/AR-HAM-00002-00013/39
September 3, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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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.
Conference/Seminar Talks - Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers
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August 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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sofiaruediger.bsky.social
Conference website already up and running:
wp.uni-koblenz.de/icame47/
#ICAME46 to #ICAME47
ICAME47 - ICAME47
Home CFP Venue Programme Registration Committees Contact We are pleased to announce that ICAME47 will take place in Koblenz (Germany) on 26-30 May 2026. ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern...
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June 21, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Quick reminder that the ICAME journal is available open access (for everybody): icame.info/icame-journal/ #ICAME46 📚
ICAME Journal – ICAME
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June 21, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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8th International Prescriptivism Conference
24-26 June 2026
Vrije Universiteit Brussel @vubrussel.bsky.social
www.historicalsociolinguistics.be/prescriptivi...
Prescriptivism Conference – Historical sociolinguistics
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June 27, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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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 😀)
York Open Research Awards 2025 - Open Research at York - York Wiki Service
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July 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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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!
May 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM