Will Bowers

Senior Lecturer in c18th Literature and Thought @QMULsed.

[Will Bowers @LimeTreeBowers]

A blog about a database I've compiled from a dinner book kept @BL_ModernMSS. The project started in 2018 & it launches today. If you're interested in dining, sociability, whig culture, etc. you can find the manuscript introduced, digitised, & indexed at https://t.co/TOqzS0vAUM

[Untold Lives @UntoldLives]

Mapping the Dining Culture at Holland House, 1798–1806.
https://t.co/BvfCh0ZPEp

[Will Bowers @LimeTreeBowers]

@TomCook24 Yep, it wasn’t just right-wing animal-lovers verse.

[Will Bowers @LimeTreeBowers]

Job opportunity to come and work as a MHRA Research Fellow on P. B. Shelley's letters @QMUL.

Details here,

https://t.co/Qr8ZojSvBE

Applications close on 12 June.

[QMCECS @qmcecs]

We are so looking forward to hearing Eliza Haughton-Shaw (Cambridge) talk to us TODAY about 'Rationality and Eccentricity in Sarah Fielding’s and Jane Collier’s The Cry (1751)'.

All welcome IN PERSON or ONLINE.

Sign up online here
https://t.co/w5hFirftkz

[Will Bowers @LimeTreeBowers]

@TomCook24 I’ll be there with bells on. Good to grumble.

[Will Bowers @LimeTreeBowers]

@TomCook24 I get that underlining in print is ugly and I’m fine with an argument that just says that. I guess I’m more bothered by an argument that thinks there’s something “correct” in doing italics over it though.

[Will Bowers @LimeTreeBowers]

@TomCook24 Yes, I think I agree with you here. They don’t know what’s good for them.

[Will Bowers @LimeTreeBowers]

@TomCook24 *you now

[Will Bowers @LimeTreeBowers]

@TomCook24 Hang on. My issue is with your claim that italicization is “nearly always what underlining meant”, but I think now concede that it isn’t? That it means emphasis? And that you’re in favour of translating that emphatic meaning from a convention of ms into a print convention?

[Will Bowers @LimeTreeBowers]

@TomCook24 It’s not that uncommon in c18th and c19th letters, nor is a really strong single underlining. My objections to italics/roman in print are that it’s a) a translation of the ms b) it’s binary where as with underlining you can be both faithful and express a larger range of mark.

[Will Bowers @LimeTreeBowers]

@TomCook24 What I wonder would you do with a double or triple underlined word in a letter?

[Will Bowers @LimeTreeBowers]

@TomCook24 An author underlining a phrase in their notebook or letter was using that underlining to say “were this to be printed, I should like this to be italicized”? Hokum. This is a mixing up of conventions: one in preparation of a ms for print (italics) and one for an ms (underlining).

[QMCECS @qmcecs]

This is tomorrow! We look forward to welcoming you online and in-person for what promises to be a cracking talk.

[Will Bowers @LimeTreeBowers]

@AaronBastani Nah, ‘twas this.

[Will Bowers @LimeTreeBowers]

@neheritagelib Brilliant job. Is the gonfundme still open, and can you post the link? Also can you link the map route?

[Will Bowers @LimeTreeBowers]

@R_A_Barr @coldwarsteve A revealing anecdote about the latter here

https://t.co/zU4ROGTSm1

[Will Bowers @LimeTreeBowers]

@R_A_Barr @coldwarsteve “Sir” Phillip Green, and Mike Ashley!

[Will Bowers @LimeTreeBowers]

@JackMoran94 Aye but we had plenty of chances to score. Isak looked like he was on a come down.

[Will Bowers @LimeTreeBowers]

@MarieAllitt An absolute disgrace.

[Miles Ogborn @MilesOgborn]

LGHG 7th May 2024 IHR A panel discussion of Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism (2024) by Catherine Hall https://t.co/XHr3jDZOTv