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Ten days until the deadline for submitting proposals for our edited collection, MARY HAMILTON AND HER CIRCLES. If you’ve been meaning to send us something, get those ideas down on paper! We’d love to hear from you.

Couldn't make it to our Launch Event in September? You can now find the recording on our blog! …ryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/launch-event-v…

🎄Season’s Greetings from everyone here at the Rylands. Wishing you a happy and peaceful New Year.

Day 2! Session 1 this morning is all about Mary Hamilton and the Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers project! If you can bear the 9am start, come to hear our team present research findings for the very first time. Reading practices, social networks, letter-writing - we got it all, baby #BSECS2023

Thanks to everybody who attended our panel and contributed to discussion - we had a blast!

What a brilliant time Team Hamilton had at #BSECS2023. Coming away with much food for thought & many new friends. Thanks to everyone who came to our panel & had conversations with us in the coffee breaks, over dinner or in the pub!

We have a new blog post from Christine Wallis, showing how enthusiastic her students got when introduced to the Mary Hamilton Papers, and the kinds of productive discoveries they made as a result. …ryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/teaching-with-…

The Mary Hamilton Papers just got bigger and better! The edition now has 2555 items available online (1589 of them transcribed), up from 1663 (1508) at launch. Enjoy at the usual address, …ryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/edition/

Got monarchy on your mind? Have a listen to our Co-Investigator Sophie Coulombeau telling the juicy story of Mary Hamilton at the Georgian court & her strained relationships with more than one member of the Royal Family…

Mary Hamilton’s back in the news! Daily Express covering her uneasy relationship with George IV here express.co.uk/news/royal/177…

Tune in to BBC Radio 3 on the evening of Sunday 2nd July to hear our Co-Investigator Sophie Coulombeau and a panel of experts try to make sense of the correspondence between Mary & George!

Major revision of Mary Hamilton Papers online edition coming on 25 August: more news very soon! 😀CQPweb search engine will be updated to match on 31 Aug, and previous query history will be unavailable online, so please make a note of any important search queries.

The Mary Hamilton Papers online edition is now officially complete! 3201 items, half of them transcribed, including all her diaries. Do take a look at the edition (digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/collections/ma…) and project website (…ryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk).

To read some of the papers, go to edition website (digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/collections/ma…), choose Transcription > Transcribed and click Apply at bottom left, then click on any of the images (try HAM/1/1/2/2, maybe) and finally View more options | Transcription -- whichever style you prefer.

Ending a tough week w/ the lovely news that I’ve been awarded funding for my project #METOO IN THE GEORGIAN COURT. It will explore ways to use my Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers research abt Mary Hamilton & the Prince of Wales to improve public understanding of modern workplace harassment.

You can read an early version of the research (which is evolving all the time) here …ryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/this-is-not-a-…. And if we’ve ever had a brief chat touching on this topic, it’s likely I might be in touch in early 2024… 👀

We're very happy and excited to share that two linguistics papers by our team have recently been published on forms of address and identity construction in the Mary Hamilton Papers edition! 🙂 And both are Open Access! See journal.fi/nm/article/vie… and revistas.um.es/ijes/article/v…

Very excited to be a part of EHU's 2024 seminar series! Looking forward to some fantastic sessions as well as talking all things Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers with Sophie Coulombeau on 29 Feb 🙂

Mary Hamilton def counts as part of the Burney circle!