Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers

Twitter account of the @ahrcpress-funded project ‘Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers’, based at @thejohnrylands.

[Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers @Hamilton_Papers]

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@SocialBodiesUoB @Montagu_Letters @EMLOnline @SMCoulombeau @CRUlph In case of interest, the Burney family very often send addresses to & from multiple members of the family. Charles Burney jr writes to his sister & her husband (the D’Arblays) together so often that he has a special collective address for them - ‘Darbs’

[Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers @Hamilton_Papers]

@SocialBodiesUoB @Montagu_Letters @EMLOnline @SMCoulombeau and @CRUlph are finishing up an article about MH’s reading practices which discusses this, and hamilton’s general appetite for letters as reading material, if you’re interested

[Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers @Hamilton_Papers]

Mary Hamilton def counts as part of the Burney circle!

[Burney Society @BurneySocietyUK]

We’ve just opened our call for applications to our 2024 Research Bursary: open to postgrad students & precariously employed/independent researchers from anywhere in the world undertaking research on Frances Burney, the Burney family and their wider circle. https://t.co/n1LkWI2F1d

[Tino Oudesluijs @TinoOudesluijs]

Very excited to be a part of EHU's 2024 seminar series! Looking forward to some fantastic sessions as well as talking all things @Hamilton_Papers with @SMCoulombeau on 29 Feb 🙂

[Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers @Hamilton_Papers]

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 https://t.co/l9I4mjw0qp and https://t.co/I7hNc5t3CY

[Sophie Coulombeau @SMCoulombeau]

You can read an early version of the research (which is evolving all the time) here https://t.co/QtXAe6rwww. And if we’ve ever had a brief chat touching on this topic, it’s likely I might be in touch in early 2024… 👀

[Sophie Coulombeau @SMCoulombeau]

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 @Hamilton_Papers research abt Mary Hamilton & the Prince of Wales to improve public understanding of modern workplace harassment.

[Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers @Hamilton_Papers]

To read some of the papers, go to edition website (https://t.co/eWRZH7pbcK), 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.

[Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers @Hamilton_Papers]

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 (https://t.co/eWRZH7pbcK) and project website (https://t.co/LuvI9yDuyr).

[Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers @Hamilton_Papers]

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.

[Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers @Hamilton_Papers]

Tune in to @BBCRadio3 on the evening of Sunday 2nd July to hear our Co-Investigator @SMCoulombeau and a panel of experts try to make sense of the correspondence between Mary & George!

[Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers @Hamilton_Papers]

Mary Hamilton’s back in the news! @Daily_Express covering her uneasy relationship with George IV here https://t.co/LYlngFYNc1

[Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers @Hamilton_Papers]

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

[BBC Free Thinking @BBCFreeThinking]

Hear @shahidhabari @BBCRadio3 📻on #Georgian fashion on show @RCT, soprano stars 🎼, the real music making of #QueenCharlotte before the @netflix series begins w/ @LizzyBuck1e @MaryJannetLeith + @SMCoulombeau on the court secrets hidden @Hamilton_Papers 👉https://t.co/ibc4o90UQl

[Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers @Hamilton_Papers]

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, https://t.co/7cagCexnJV

[Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers @Hamilton_Papers]

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.
https://t.co/W54wpSPZJW

[Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers @Hamilton_Papers]

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!

[Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers @Hamilton_Papers]

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

[Sophie Coulombeau @SMCoulombeau]

Had a great time at our @Hamilton_Papers panel - thanks all for coming, stealing extra chairs, & making it a #SoldOutGig! Fascinating qs about how names indicate politeness, whether ‘compliments’ indicate a relationship, & Mary’s autocannibalistic manuscript books. #bsecs2023

[Sophie Coulombeau @SMCoulombeau]

Day 2! Session 1 this morning is all about Mary Hamilton and the @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