by Cassandra Ulph | Nov 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
In our autumn blog post, team Hamilton’s Nuria Yáñez-Bouza reports on the study by her BA dissertation student Celia Castro-Vázquez at the University of Vigo (2021). It is framed within Research Strand III of the project, and constitutes a nice example of how to...
by Cassandra Ulph | Aug 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
Hamilton Project Research Associate Christine Wallis writes for the blog of the John Rylands Research Institute and Library about her experience of working with Hamilton's archive, its rewards and challenges, and the relationship between authorship, handwriting, and...
by Cassandra Ulph | Jul 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
Our latest blog post by Tino Oudesluijs explores the social significance of card games as documented in the Mary Hamilton Papers In Mary Hamilton’s lifetime, indoor games gained much popularity throughout England (as they did in the rest of Europe), to the point where...
by Cassandra Ulph | Mar 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
To mark the release of the Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers’ fully-edited correspondence of Mary Hamilton and George IV, Sophie Coulombeau explores the dynamics of their correspondence in this special long read blog: This is not a love story: Mary Hamilton...
by Cassandra Ulph | Feb 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
In our February blog post, Christine Wallis explores the stories told by outsides, wrappers and envelopes. Throughout this project I’ve become just as interested in what the outsides of letters have to tell us about the lives of Hamilton and her circle, as I have in...
by Cassandra Ulph | Dec 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
Christmas has come to Hamilton HQ! In our first year of the Hamilton project, we’ve found ourselves thinking about ways to mediate absences and distance, and not just in terms of what we find (or don’t) in the archive: our working practices and communications are...
by Cassandra Ulph | Oct 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
Our October blog post comes from Team Hamilton’s Christine Wallis, who has been thinking about how the circumstances of letter-writing, and letter-writers, leave traces in the archive:One of the things I’ve been enjoying most about working with the material on...
by Cassandra Ulph | Jul 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
In this special guest blog post, Aileen Loftus, a second-year undergraduate student at the University of Manchester, writes about her group’s experience of ‘Editing a Georgian Archive’ as part of the Undergraduate Scholars programme. As part of the...
by Cassandra Ulph | Jun 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
In this month’s blog post, Tino Oudesluijs reflects on how the challenges of transcription connect the eighteenth century to the twenty-first. Unlocking the Hamilton Papers is well underway in the transcription stage of the project, and the PDRA team (Cassie,...
by Cassandra Ulph | May 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
At present, Unlocking the Hamilton Papers is deep in the transcription stage, and we are especially grateful for the hard work of our colleagues at the John Rylands Library on the ongoing digitisation of the Hamilton Archive which has thus far allowed us to continue...