Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers

Lead Research Organisation: The University of Manchester
Department Name: Arts Languages and Cultures

Abstract

This ambitious project exploits an almost untouched archive to answer important questions about reading, letter-writing and everyday language in Georgian England and the contribution made by social networks to these significant cultural practices. A multidisciplinary team from the fields of linguistic, historical and literary studies will address questions and combine approaches that contribute to current academic debates across a broad range of research areas in innovative ways. It will shed new light on the culture of English society in this period and will help to launch an exciting new genre of Hamilton studies by exploring a remarkable, but relatively unknown archive, presently scattered over eleven libraries in Britain and the USA. We will use the Papers to explore four related research questions on reading, letter-writing, language practices and the role of social networks in Georgian England.

(I) Our research starts from the premise, increasingly important in various disciplinary fields, that social networks are crucial to the maintenance and change of both linguistic and cultural behaviour. Having constructed a 'personography' of writers, addressees and others mentioned in the Papers, we will map all the social networks to which Mary Hamilton belonged. This strand will subsequently include a ground-breaking comparison of the operation and effects of social network membership across the different domains of reading practices, letter-writing and grammatical structure, where we will carry out more specialised investigations.

(II) We will make a comprehensive analysis of accounts of reading practices mentioned in the archive, ascertaining whether patterns of circulation, reception and response show any significant differentiation in line with the genre of a text, or the class/gender/perceived character of that text's author. We will distinguish print and manuscript texts throughout. This strand will contribute to our understanding of, inter alia, eighteenth-century canon formation.

(III) In the late Georgian period, politeness was of central importance not just as a sociocultural phenomenon but in language use. The correspondence will be examined from several angles to track the influence on usage of normative rules in historical grammars and letter-writing manuals. We will analyse how gender and social status, including social network relationships, bear on forms of address and thus contribute to face-saving strategies. This strand of the study will add significantly to our knowledge of sociolinguistic and sociopragmatic factors in the history of Late Modern English, and the history of language standardisation.

(IV) The Hamilton Papers cover a crucial period in the history of English verb structure, particularly changes in usage of 'be' as auxiliary, such as the loss of 'your being looking well' and the advent of 'was being debated', two symptoms among many of a major but relatively neglected realignment of the auxiliary system. We will make a fine-grained analysis of the progress of change both across social networks and during the lifetime of individuals, leading to a better understanding of the language of the period, the history of English and mechanisms of language change generally.

Each of the four research strands will produce and draw on its own systematic database of instances. The essential groundwork for these databases is an edition of the Mary Hamilton Papers that is reliable and searchable for text, names, concepts and parts of speech. A valuable additional product of the project will therefore be a complete, scholarly, readable edition of the Papers, available in Open Access online.

Planned Impact

This project will create and share new knowledge that will enhance beneficiaries' intellectual, cultural and creative quality of life. Impact will be measured through two complementary pathways, the first engaging schoolchildren on a local scale, and the other adults on an international scale.

Pathway 1: Contribution to schools programmes at the John Rylands Library

Beneficiaries: Primary School children (Key Stage 2) based in or visiting Manchester

Strategy for achieving impact: We will produce lesson plans and supporting materials for schoolchildren linked to the Library's Hamilton papers. Fitting neatly with National Curriculum requirements, these will help pupils to identify and discuss themes and conventions in and across a wide range of writing, and to identify how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning, as well as considering the impact of different forms of writing on the reader. Letter writing is a popular exercise amongst schoolteachers to address many of the demands of the English curriculum, with children typically being asked to write a letter of complaint. We seek to introduce the children to different forms of letter writing, and in particular the use of letters to inform, tell stories and entertain. For many children in years 5 and 6 (ages 9-11), the type of letters that Mary Hamilton and her circle produced with their formal conventions and extended descriptions are totally alien. Our workshops will help children to bridge this gap with the past by introducing extracts from some of Hamilton's letters and helping the children to produce their own. We will evaluate these outputs with both children and their teachers.

Pathway 2: Media outputs addressing women's histories

Beneficiaries: In recent years, women's histories have become extremely popular with the general public. Sociological research and demographic data addressing this phenomenon is thin on the ground (with precise topical interests unaddressed by, for example, the Audience Agency's profiles of culturally active segments https://www.theaudienceagency.org/audience-spectrum/profiles, or the DCMS-commissioned Taking Part survey https://www.gov.uk/guidance/taking-part-survey). However, examples abound of commercially and critically successful exhibitions, radio programmes, TV documentaries, trade biographies, online features and viral videos, and public campaigns for commemoration that 'recover' and 're-tell' the stories of 'forgotten women' (examples include: TV programmes e.g. Amanda Foreman's The Ascent of Woman; historical novels e.g. the fiction of Sarah Waters; and campaigns e.g. Caroline Criado-Perez's project to install a statue of a woman in Parliament Square and feature a woman's portrait on a banknote). Our project offers opportunities to further address this wave of interest.

Strategy for achieving impact: we will produce three outputs - a short film, a radio programme, and a blog with linked social media feeds. These outputs are designed to correspond to the three main ways of "being audiences" - "reading, listening and viewing" (Nightingale, 2011, 5). Recognising that the advent of digital media has transformed 'audiences' into 'produsers' [sic] (not passively responding to content, but also creating it through comments, shares and online reflections), the outputs will also be freely accessible online and available to interactive activity, with robust mechanisms in place to facilitate feedback and exchange with our beneficiaries. We will use Altmetric software to collect and collate shares, reach and comments in order to calibrate the impact of these outputs on audiences' knowledge, understanding, and identities. Previous experience within our project team suggests that well-crafted media features about women's histories can produce demonstrable qualitative evidence of impact in terms of changing how people think about their own situations and identities (see Pathways to Impact.)
 
Description ? Ground-breaking open access digital edition of previously little known but hugely significant historical papers..
? Successful incorporation of innovative interdisciplinary research methodology..
? Substantial public engagement and work on pathways to impact.
? We have produced all but one of the outputs planned: Book (co-author), to be published as a co-edited Special Issue in the Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies; Critical/Digital Edition; Journal Articles (all of them refereed); Conference/Seminar Papers, including participation at Round Tables; Databases; Project Website; Teaching Materials; and participation in Radio Programmes.
? In addition to the planned outputs, we have produced book chapters and several datasets, as well as achieved media coverage of our findings that has surpassed our expectations. Besides, the PDRA initially employed for the compilation of the edition has also taken part in several dissemination activities and publications. See the Outcomes by Christine Wallis.
Exploitation Route How might the findings be taken forward and by whom
? Project team remain engaged in research.
? Wider group of international scholars across disciplines already using project outputs to generate new research. E.g. our edited collection will feature contributions from not only project team members and colleagues based in the UK but also scholars from Switzerland, Germany, Poland, Spain and Japan.
? Project cited and discussed in cutting-edge research across various disciplines, e.g. Sally Barnden, Shakespeare and the Royal Actor: Performing Monarchy, 1760-1952 (OUP, 2024); Karen Harvey, Sarah Goldsmith and Sheryllyne Haggerty (eds.), Letters and the Body, 1700-1830: Writing and Embodiment (Taylor & Francis, 2023); Astrid Ensslen, Bronwen Thomas, and Julia Round (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Literary Media (Taylor & Francis, 2023).
Sectors Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software)

Education

Culture

Heritage

Museums and Collections

URL https://www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk
 
Description Impact work is being taken forward by CI Sophie Coulombeau, in discussion with partners including the Fawcett Society, the Royal Palaces, and various schools.She is currently finalising schools materials for A-level English Literature students and their teachers. These will be published within the next 12 months. With regard to the Film/Recording output originally planned, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the lockdowns and other restrictions associated with this, made it impossible to undertake this activity within the designated phase of the project. We chose to direct our energies towards creating audio content, which was much more technically feasible at that time; as such, we have produced three radio programmes about Mary Hamilton rather than the one proposed. By the time restrictions and health anxieties were no longer prohibitive, we were in discussion (still ongoing) with producer Alex Mason and Red Bicycle Productions to make a TV documentary about Mary Hamilton and George IV; the potential for greater reach that such a feature might have has meant that we have prioritised this line of enquiry over a short film for the Rylands website.
Sector Education
Impact Types Cultural

 
Description Impact Accelerator Grant
Amount £5,179 (GBP)
Organisation University of York 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 02/2024 
End 07/2024
 
Title The Mary Hamilton Papers (c.1740-c.1850), Digital Edition. Contents Database 
Description This is an Excel database with the complete list of files available in the digital edition and linguistic corpus, currently adding to 3201 individual items. It offers individual columns with the following metadata: Classmark - Date - Author - Author ID - Place sent - Recipient - Recipient ID - Place received - Repository from which the original source has been drawn - Collection name in the repository - Title of the individual file - Extent in number of words or sheets - Transcription available in Manchester Digital Collections (Yes/No) - URL to the file in Manchester Digital Collections. File available at: https://www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/CurrentFileList_20240227.xlsx This is publicly available for download directly from our project website. https://www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/edition/overview/ 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact A resource to facilitate access to the edition, no direct impact in itself. 
URL https://www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/edition/overview/
 
Title The Mary Hamilton Papers (c.1740-c.1850), Digital Edition. Correspondence Metadata Interchange Format (CMIF) 
Description As part of our project editorial practices we have encoded the metadata from the correspondence element of the Hamilton edition according to the 'Correspondence Metadata Interchange Format' (CMIF), and thus The Mary Hamilton Papers features in "correspSearch", a searchable international index of letters from different periods and in different languages, with persons and places linked to authority files. This is publicly available at https://correspsearch.net/en/home.html 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact Search engine from German university which facilitates search of and access to numerous correspondence editions. Direct impact unknown. 
URL https://correspsearch.net/en/home.html
 
Title The Mary Hamilton Papers (c.1740-c.1850), Digital Edition. Correspondents Database 
Description This is a list extracted from the Personography Database and confined to writers (c.260) and recipients of correspondence. It can be consulted on our project website: https://www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/correspondents/ 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact Enhanced information about authors-recipients in the Papers (even more in the not-yet-released XML version). Direct impact not known. 
URL https://www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/correspondents/
 
Title The Mary Hamilton Papers (c.1740-c.1850), Digital Edition. Personography Database 
Description This is an XML file with a list of about 2,600 authors, recipients and identified persons mentioned in the transcribed portion of the edition. For each person we document biographical data (name, sex, date of birth/death, etc.), familial relations to other persons in the edition, links to external sources such as the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, MyHeritage, the Virtual International Authority File, etc., and we add editorial observations, too. The core information of the database can be consulted on our project website: https://www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/personography/. The XML file (HAMpersons.xml) is not publicly available yet, as some team members are still working on identifications. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact Enhanced information about authors-recipients-mentionees in the Papers (even more in the not-yet-released XML version). Direct impact not known. 
URL https://www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/personography/
 
Title The Mary Hamilton Papers (c.1740-c.1850), Linguistic Corpus. CQPweb 
Description CQP stands for Corpus Query Processor and CQPweb is the web tool hosted on a server at Lancaster University. CQPweb is a program which handles text search for the Hamilton edition, and indeed for other corpora (over 100 linguistic corpora, English and non-English, synchronic as well as diachronic). It holds an indexed copy of the corpus created for the project by Sebastian Hoffmann (University of Trier), with part-of-speech (CLAWS) and semantic tagging (USAS), two of the most popular tools for corpus-based studies (http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/claws/, http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/usas/). CQPweb is an excellent search engine which permits both simple text searches and complex queries. Our project website provides detailed guidelines on how to access CQPweb and how to run searches for content or linguistic analysis in the Hamilton Papers: https://www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/text-search/ CQPweb is hosted at https://cqpweb.lancs.ac.uk/. It is open access upon registration via our project website. 
Type Of Material Data analysis technique 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact Full-featured search engine which is both attractive for the general user and capable of elaborate searches. Direct impact unknown. 
URL https://cqpweb.lancs.ac.uk/
 
Title The Mary Hamilton Papers (c.1740-c.1850), Social Network Analysis Technique 
Description This relates to Strand I of the project. Our research starts from the premise, increasingly important in various disciplinary fields, that social networks are crucial to the maintenance and change of both linguistic and cultural behaviour. Having constructed a 'personography' of writers, addressees and others mentioned in The Mary Hamilton Papers, we are mapping the social networks Mary Hamilton belonged to. This strand will subsequently include a ground-breaking comparison of the operation and effects of social network membership across the different domains of reading practices, letter-writing and grammatical structure, where we are carrying out more specialised investigations. Ongoing work is reported on our project website, with regular updates: https://www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/networks/ 
Type Of Material Data analysis technique 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact Innovative technique that is the basis for the Network Visualisation, previously unavailable in comparable projects. Any impact will result from visualisation (see the entry for "The Mary Hamilton Papers (c.1740-c.1850), Social Network Analysis Visualisation"). 
URL https://www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/networks/
 
Title The Mary Hamilton Papers (c.1740-c.1850), Social Network Analysis Visualisation 
Description This relates to Strand I of the project. Our aim is to map social networks in five unequal periods of Mary Hamilton's life, in order to visualise who she principally interacts with, and their interrelationship. These are Adolescence, Court, Clarges, Marriage-N and Marriage-S. The visualisations display multiple interconnections among a few dozen of the most significant persons in that period. The information for network visualisation is wholly derived from documents in the archive, using an innovative, reproducible methodology that requires little or no close reading, subjective judgement or consideration of external databases or collections. We combine metadata from all correspondence in the archive, whether or not transcribed, with information derived from people mentioned ('mentionees') in transcribed correspondence and diaries. The technique will be described in full in the journal article 'Reconstructing Mary Hamilton's social networks' by David Denison & Tino Oudesluijs, Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies, expected 2025. Preliminary work on several of the five periods is publicly available on the project website (https://www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/networks) and the Gephi files can also be downloaded. As of 29/02/2024, three of the five periods are ready; the fourth and fifth period will be made available this spring. 
Type Of Material Data analysis technique 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact Innovative visualisation of significant relationships between persons in the Papers, previously unavailable in comparable projects, with the added value that it is user-friendly for general audiences. Direct impact unknown. 
URL https://www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/networks
 
Description "I remain, my Dear Lady Wake, Your sincere & obliged Friend Mary Dickenson". Personal Names as Forms of Address in Mary Hamilton's Correspondence (c.1740-1830) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presenter: Nuria Yáñez Bouza.
In-person conference paper at the international conference AEDEAN45 organised by the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies, University of Extremadura, Spain.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://eventos.unex.es/78901/detail/45th-aedean-conference.html
 
Description "My Astrea, my dearest Miss Goldsworthy, ever dear Lady Wake" - Direct forms of address in Mary Hamilton's private correspondence 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presenter: Nuria Yáñez-Bouza.
In-person conference paper at the international conference ICAME44 on English corpus linguistics, organised by North-West University (South Africa).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://humanities.nwu.ac.za/languages/ICAME44
 
Description "My Dearest friend Ever Yours, M. Hamilton". Address formulae in The Mary Hamilton Papers (c.1750-c.1820) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presenters: Nuria Yáñez-Bouza & Tino Oudesluijs
In-person conference paper at the 11th international conference organised by the Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN), University of Murcia, Spain.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://eventos.um.es/64814/detail/historical-sociolinguistics-conference-2022.html
 
Description A Powerful Crush: A harmless teenage crush or a case of 18th-century sexual harassment?, BBC Radio 3, Sunday Feature 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Project member: Sophie Coulombeau.
Coulombeau wrote and presented a Sunday Feature about the relationship between Mary Hamilton and the Prince of Wales, broadcast in a prime slot on BBC Radio 3. 2 July 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001n80r
 
Description A first look at Mary Hamilton's social networks 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presenters: David Denison & Tino Oudesluijs.
In-person presentation delivered as part of a panel at the 52nd annual British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, held at St Hugh's College, Oxford.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/annual-conference/
 
Description Blog for the Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers Project 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Main forum for dissemination of project information / findings. As of 4 March 2024: 21 blog entries, 6,423 views.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020,2021,2022,2023,2024
URL https://www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/blog/
 
Description Considering the effects of copying behaviour on written language in 18th century English letters 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presenter: Tino Oudesluijs.
Online presentation at the 21st International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Leiden University, Netherlands.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/icehl21/programme
 
Description Constructing identities and negotiating relationships in late eighteenth-century private correspondence 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Authors: Tino Oudesluijs & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza.
Presenter: Tino Oudesluijs.
Online presentation for a Masterclass organised by the University of Oslo, entitled "The (polite) letter writer in Late Modern English times".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.hf.uio.no/ilos/english/people/aca/norado/upcoming-events/masterclass-the-polite-letter-w...
 
Description Constructing identities and negotiating relationships in private correspondence at the court of George III: A look into The Mary Hamilton Papers 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presenters: Tino Oudesluijs & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza.
In-person conference paper at the 22nd International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL), University of Sheffield, UK.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/icehl22
 
Description Contributor to Free Thinking: Bridgerton and Georgian Entertainment, BBC Radio 3 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Project member: Sophie Coulombeau.
Coulombeau spoke about the project on a panel discussing Georgian entertainments, on Radio 3's flagship arts and ideas show. 5 April 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0015v3c
 
Description Contributor to Free Thinking: Queen Charlotte, Fashion and Music, BBC Radio 3 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Project member: Sophie Coulombeau.
Coulombeau spoke about the project on a panel discussing Georgian court culture, on Radio 3's flagship arts and ideas show. 25 April 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001l4jz
 
Description Delegated writing in The Mary Hamilton Papers 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presenter: Christine Wallis.
In-person conference paper at the 22nd International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL), University of Sheffield.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/icehl22
 
Description Digitizing Eighteenth-Century Letters and Manuscripts: A Conversation 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presenter: Sophie Coulombeau.
Online presentation for a panel delivered at the 51st annual British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, held at the University of Oxford.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.bsecs.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/BSECS-51-Annual-Conference-Long-Programme-websit...
 
Description Facebook. Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Facebook page set up to disseminate information to those who prefer not to use Twitter / X. As of 4 March 2024: 23 posts, 27 likes, 31 followers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019,2020,2021,2022,2023,2024
 
Description Forms of address and politeness in Mary Hamilton's private correspondence, 1776-1814 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presenter: Nuria Yáñez-Bouza.
In-person presentation delivered as part of a panel at the 52nd annual British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, held at St Hugh's College, Oxford.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/annual-conference/
 
Description Franks and friendship in The Mary Hamilton Papers 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presenter: Christine Wallis.
In-person conference paper at the 12th international conference organised by the Historical Sociolinguistics Network, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.historicalsociolinguistics.be/hison-2023/
 
Description Intimacy, creativity and networks: reading practices in the Mary Hamilton Papers 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presenter: Cassandra Ulph.
Online presentation for conference run by the Open University, UK: "GOTH 1st Annual Research Symposium", Women's Writing and Book History' panel.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://fass.open.ac.uk/research/centres/goth/event/goth-1st-annual-research-symposium
 
Description Jack Hardy, 'George IV 'sexual harassment' of teenage crush revealed in letters' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Project member: Sophie Coulombeau.
Article for national newspaper covering project findings about Mary Hamilton and the Prince of Wales. The Daily Telegraph, 26 March 2021.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/26/george-iv-sexual-harassment-teenage-crush-revealed-lette...
 
Description Like Father, Like Son? Scottish English and Intra-Writer Variation in The Mary Hamilton Papers 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presenter: Christine Wallis.
In-person conference paper at the 11th international conference organised by the Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN), University of Murcia, Spain.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://eventos.um.es/64814/detail/historical-sociolinguistics-conference-2022.html
 
Description Mark Bridge, 'George IV emotionally abused his teenage crush' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Project member: Sophie Coulombeau.
Article for national newspaper covering project findings about Mary Hamilton and the Prince of Wales. The Times, 26 March 2021.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/george-iv-emotionally-abused-his-teenage-crush-jd0lqng8f
 
Description Mike Laycock, 'York study into Royal's love letters with governess' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Project member: Sophie Coulombeau.
Article for regional newspaper covering project findings about Mary Hamilton and the Prince of Wales. York Press, 8 March 2021.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/19144237.york-study-royals-love-letters-governess/
 
Description New Thoughts on Romantic-period Digital Editions 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presenter: Cassandra Ulph.
In-person presentation delivered as part of a panel at the annual British Association for Romantic Studies Conference, organised by Edge Hill University.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://newromanticisms.wordpress.com/
 
Description Online launch of the Mary Hamilton Papers: Digital Edition 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presenters: Hannah Barker, Sophie Coulombeau, David Denison, Tino Oudesluijs, Cassandra Ulph, Christine Wallis, Nuria Yáñez-Bouza.
Hybrid launch of our edition, held in person at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library, streamed live, and then placed as a recording on the Rylands YouTube channel.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwwJoAlW3Xw
 
Description Project website for the Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers Project 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Main forum for dissemination of project information / findings. As of 4 March 2024: 64,023 views.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019,2020,2021,2022,2023,2024
URL https://www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk
 
Description Reading Practices in The Mary Hamilton Papers, 1783-1784 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presenters: Sophie Coulombeau & Cassandra Ulph.
In-person presentation delivered as part of a panel at the 52nd annual British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, held at St Hugh's College, Oxford
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/annual-conference/
 
Description Reading and Making in the Mary Hamilton Archive 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presenters: Cassandra Ulph & Anne Anderton (Curator, JRRIL).
In-person presentation delivered towards seminar series for the John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:s1c7-l09f2sc3-tl0gnf/the-rylands-lunchtime-seminar-serie...
 
Description Rebecca Cope, 'The dark side of King George IV's teenage crush revealed' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Project member: Sophie Coulombeau.
Article for international magazine covering project findings about Mary Hamilton and the Prince of Wales. Tatler, 29 March 2021.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.tatler.com/article/king-george-iv-teenage-girlfriend
 
Description Rhiannon du Cann, 'Unearthed letters from George IV to Mary Hamilton would have caused outrage in the Me Too era' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Project member: Sophie Coulombeau.
Article for national newspaper covering project findings about Mary Hamilton and the Prince of Wales. Express, 16 May 2023.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1770749/king-george-iv-letters-mary-hamilton-spt
 
Description Social networks and auxiliary BE: new data from The Mary Hamilton Papers (c.1760-c.1820) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presenters: David Denison & Tino Oudesluijs.
In-person conference paper delivered at the 22nd International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL), organised by the University of Sheffield, UK.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/icehl22
 
Description The Mary Hamilton Papers (c.1740-c.1850): a treasure trove for the study of literary and linguistic social networks 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presenter: Nuria Yáñez-Bouza.
In-person presentation as part of a round table with teams from various projects hosted at Spanish universities: "English historical corpora in Spain ten years on". This was part of the 14th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC), organised by the University of Oviedo (Spain).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://cilc2023.wordpress.com/round-tables/
 
Description The Mary Hamilton Papers (c.1750-c.1820): Digitising new data for the study of linguistic and literary networks 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presenters: Tino Oudesluijs, Nuria Yáñez-Bouza & David Denison.
Online presentation at the 6th International Conference organised by the International Society for the Linguistics of English, "ISLE 6: Evolving English and the Digital Era", University of Joensuu, Finland.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://sites.uef.fi/isle6/
 
Description Through the lens of The Mary Hamilton Papers (c.1750-c.1820): Ego-documents, individuals and historical social networks 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presenters: Tino Oudesluijs & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza.
Online presentation at the 10th international conference organised by the Historical Sociolinguistics Network, HiSoN Conference: Intra-Writer Variation in Historical Sociolinguistics. University of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://sprachwissenschaft.fau.de/hison2021/index.php?page=programme
 
Description Tracking verb changes in a corpus of non-printed manuscript materials 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presenters: David Denison & Tino Oudesluijs.
In-person conference paper delivered at the international conference 'Grammar & Corpora 2022 Conference', organised by the University of Ghent, Belgium.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.gac2022.ugent.be/
 
Description Transcribing and Editing The Mary Hamilton Papers (c.1750-c.1820) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presenters: David Denison, Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, Tino Oudesluijs, Cassandra Ulph & Christine Wallis.
Online presentation at the international conference "ICAME42: Crossing Boundaries through Corpora" on English corpus linguistics, University of TU Dortmund, Germany.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://icame42.englisch.tu-dortmund.de/
 
Description Twitter/X. Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers. @Hamilton_Papers 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Main social media channel for dissemination of project information / findings. As of 4 March 2024: 355 posts, 745 followers.
@Hamilton_Papers
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019,2020,2021,2022,2023,2024
 
Description Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers (I) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presenter: Sophie Coulombeau.
Online presentation to an open online symposium for eighteenth-century students, scholars and enthusiasts. Organised by the Open Digital Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies. Placed as a recording on the ODSECS YouTube channel.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://youtu.be/hnev__Xxfsc
 
Description Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers (II) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presenter: Sophie Coulombeau.
Online presentation to an open online symposium for eighteenth-century students, scholars and enthusiasts. Organised by BARS Digital Events: 'Digital Editions in Romantic Studies'. Placed as a recording on the ODSECS YouTube channel.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://youtu.be/nzcByntrtn4
 
Description Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers - Project findings 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presenters: Sophie Coulombeau & Tino Oudesluijs.
Online presentation delivered for the Nineteen Seminar Series organised by Edge Hill University, focusing on long-nineteenth century studies: "Linguistic-literary In Conversation".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
URL https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/departments/academic/english-and-creative-arts/research/ehunineteen/
 
Description Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers: Classroom Resources 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact Authors: Hannah Barker, Sophie Coulombeau, David Denison, Tino Oudesluijs, Cassandra Ulph & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza.
In collaboration with educational consultant Lucy Toop and David Caunce of Manchester-based graphic design agency Imagine, the project team has produced a set of classroom resources about the correspondence between Mary Hamilton and the future George IV. These resources aim: to support teachers of students studying English Language and Literature at A-level by offering students enhanced insights into eighteenth-century language, courtship, letters and society; to generate reflection and conversation within the classroom about gender, power and language in the workplace; to open the door for school visits and workshops from a member of the project team, who can offer students a taste of university-level study and give them an insight into the research process that enabled a reassessment of the relationship between Mary and George. The materials will be placed on the John Rylands Research Institute and Library website during March 2024 and rolled out over 2024, with support from a generous grant from the University of York's Impact Accelerator Fund.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers: Findings so far 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presenters: Hannah Barker, Sophie Coulombeau, David Denison, Tino Oudesluijs, Cassandra Ulph & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza.
In-person panel delivered at the 52dn annual British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference: "Homecoming, Return and Recovery", held at St Hugh's College, Oxford.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/annual-conference/
 
Description Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers: the locksmiths' view 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presenters: David Denison & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza.
Online presentation at the English Linguistics departmental research seminar, University of Uppsala.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Unlocking the digital archive 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presenters: Sophie Coulombeau & Katie Crowther.
Online presentation to an open online symposium for eighteenth-century students, scholars and enthusiasts at the University of York. Organised by the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies Research Seminar, University of York.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021