by David Denison | Feb 28, 2024 | Uncategorized
As previously threatened, we have continued to work on the edition announced as ‘completed’ last December. My main preoccupation recently has been social networks, and detailed sampling of ‘mentionees’ has led to correction of some person references, occasionally...
by David Denison | Dec 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
The Mary Hamilton Papers online edition is now officially complete! After a major upload of new and revised material on 25 August 2023, and a further revision of text, person references and personography on 21 November 2023, it has 3201 items, half of them...
by David Denison | Jan 31, 2023 | Uncategorized
In this post, Christine Wallis talks about her experience of using The Mary Hamilton Papers in her teaching at Erlangen. She confirms what we found in the 'Image to Text' project several years ago, that students not just adore working with the Papers but learn a lot...
by Cassandra Ulph | Jan 4, 2023 | Uncategorized
The Mary Hamilton Papers team have been grateful to the Anson family for their ongoing support and enthusiasm for the project. In this guest blog post, Hope Anson reflects on her experience of exploring her ancestor's archive, and of following the progress of the...
by Cassandra Ulph | Dec 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
After having worked on the Mary Hamilton Papers digital edition since December 2019, the Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers team officially launched the edition, hosted by Manchester Digital Collections, with a presentation on 27 September 2022. This was a major...
by Cassandra Ulph | Sep 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
Call for Papers Mary Hamilton and her Circles: An Edited Collection The team at the AHRC-funded research project Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers is delighted to invite proposals for an edited volume on Mary Hamilton and her circles. This will be the first...
by Cassandra Ulph | Aug 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
Since December 2019, the Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers team have been working away on a digital edition of writings related to Mary Hamilton (1756-1816), including material from the Mary Hamilton Papers archive held at the John Rylands Research Institute and...
by Cassandra Ulph | Feb 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
The digital editing of the Mary Hamilton papers is an ambitious project that relies on lots of hard work behind-the-scenes from many partners at the University and at times demands some advanced technical wrangling! Following the recent migration of a large cache of...
by Cassandra Ulph | Feb 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
Today is a special day in the Team Hamilton calendar, as we wish our Mary (or Miranda to her friends) all the happy returns of her 266th Birthday! Mary Hamilton was born on 5th February 1756, the only child of Charles and Mary (née Dufresne). The Hamilton Papers...
by Cassandra Ulph | Dec 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
In our guest post for December, Emma Stanbridge (PhD Candidate, Keele University) explores a diamond theft outside the Opera House, and the dangers lurking on the margins of Mary Hamilton’s brilliant social world. An attack outside the Opera House On 22nd...
