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...
