Acknowledgements

The Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers project would not be possible without the help and support, at various stages, of the following:

Advisory board

Anne Gardner (Lausanne)
Jane Hodson (Sheffield)
Peter Sabor (Burney Centre, McGill)
Anni Sairio (Helsinki)
Erik Smitterberg (Uppsala)
Nataliia Voloshkova (Kiev)

RAs in the Image to Text project

2019: Emma Donington Kiey
2019: Chenming Gao
2018: Georgia Tutt
2017: Sarah Connor
2017: Carla Seabra-Dacosta
2016, 2017: Isabella Formisano
2015: Donald Morrison
2014: George Bailey

RAs (University of York, Student Internship)

2022: Caroline Ritchie, Doctoral Candidate
2021: Katie Crowther, Doctoral Candidate
2021: Elinor Bailey, Undergraduate Student

RAs (University of Manchester, SEI Learning Through Research Internship)

2022: Sadie Barlow, Undergraduate Student
2021: Alex McLoughlin, Undergraduate Student

RAs (University of Vigo)

2023: Mar Nieves-Fernández
2023: Sabela Vidal-Magdalena
2022: Sara Albán-Barcia
2021: Sara Albán-Barcia

Students on the course unit Modern English Language, 1500-present (LELA30172/70172), University of Manchester

2017-18

UG students: Usama Ali, Sam Cooper, Natalia De La Torre Bromley, Francesco Della Ferrera, Sana Ditta, Emily Ducat, Isak Ferati, Ana García Maquieira, Cristina García Rodríguez, Katie Grime, Parisa Hallgate, Joshua Hartley, Sam Hepburn, Ellie Jarvis, Lin Ji, Jérémie Josse, Taslima Kohinur, George Lee, Celeste Leonard, Qianru Li, Shiqi Li, Claudia Locatelli, Arianna Losa, Ella Lowson, Emily Morgan, Jane Neal, Ana Olveira Mariño, Asim Ramzan, Kayleigh Ryan, Raafia Shazad, Liqun Shi, Tiffany Winterburn, Yujue Yan
MA student: Georgia Tutt

2016-17

UG students: Liam Bretag, Michael Cameron, Charlotte Campbell, Lucy Campbell, Sarah Connor, Joseph Gill, Laura Gritti, Jocelyn Hordern, Xiaoge Liu, Yuxiao Liu, Sonia Mills, Thomas Mills, Xinyu Shi, Hannah Smith, Chi Wang: students on LELA30172
MA student: Megan Speakman

2015-2016

UG students: Rhia Abukhalil, Katie Ashworth, Kathryn Baldwin, Lucy Brookes, Ramón Carballo de Santiago, Louisa Coley, Pablo González Cabrera, Daniel Grogan, Rose Halligan, Olivia Holgate, Sophie Iveson, Stephanie James, Katharina Kolar, Anna Maguire, Alexandra Morton, Grace Ormerod, Rosie Pendrey, Ru Prescott, Amy Price, Adam Selby, Luke Sharma, Razia Sultana, Abigail Tait, Nicole Tamer, Jennifer van Hees, Georgia Wadsworth, Keely
MA students: Aizhan Amangazina, Isabella Formisano, Thomas McKiernan, Ethan Newton, Almira Sejfic, Andrew Wells

2014-15 (LELA30171)

UG students: Emily Aston, Hollie Barker, Nicholas Barraclough, Connor Barrett, Joe Branker, Amy Brenndorfer, Olivia Colvin, Lucy Cook, Bridie Cottiss, Jannes Dahlhaus, †Tom Eckles, Joe Hargreaves, Izzy Harris, Jack Hurlock, Hope Isaac, Holly Jones, Jack Jones, Rachael Jones, Anna Lawson-Walker, Ruby Linden, Rachael Lunt, Marta Maffioletti, Adam Massey, Nik McNally, Donald Morrison, Emma Nabbs, Gabriel O’Connell, Mariachiara Peroni, Sam Potter, Laura Proctor, Jess Rigby, Gabbi Royle, Emma Saavedra Fernández, Marcus Sorton, Lauren Thomas, Rebecca Tiffany, Jake Tilley, Lara Uttenweiler, Martha Whitford Kelly, Hollie Wilson

2013-14 (LELA30171)

UG students: Maddy Back, George Bailey, Chloe Bayode, Melissa Bottomley, Faye Broadbent, Lauren Brooks, Chris Carr, Rachael Cochrane, Marta Colleoni, Sarah Conlon, Kris Coombes, Ciara Cusack, Tom Dalton, Gillian Davies, Ella Dix-Nagra, Steph Dobson, Joseph Doherty, Ben Fearn, Jen Fitton, Harriet Fitzgerald-Allsopp, Nicola Fletcher, Amy Galbraith, Louisa Gerrard, Rachel Harrison, Emily Hodson, Huishi Hu, Alice Hunter, Tom Ingham, Aina Jabeen Khan, Anna Jones, Kim Kahan, Emma Kelly, James Kidd, Katy Lorimer, Alice McMahon, Momina Mohammed, Vicky Murphy, Abi Mylchreest, Umara Nasim, Ollie Nesbitt, Sam Nightingale, Mugi Oktyabri, Xiaoxin Ou, Rebecca Paxton, Hannah Phillips, Chun Qing, William Quamina, Kadie Ratchford, George Rowlands, Hala Shablak, Olivia Skinner, Gracie Smith, Laura Smith, Limeng Tang, Leo Thompson-Adams, Jenny Toner, Jo Tripney, Iago Valin Lopez, Rita Vivas García, Xiaoxuan Wang, Gemma Warren, Dan Whiteley, Kelly Wilby, Sarah Wolff, Mingzhen Wu, Yiwei Yin, Rui Zhang, Yangzi Zhou

Undergraduate Scholars Programme, Editing a Georgian Archive, University of Manchester

2020: Anne de Reynier, Qiaoshen Hua, Aileen Loftus, Lauren O'Connor, Tillie Quattrone
2019: Chenming Gao, Paula Gaskill, Seren Morgan-Roberts, Mariana Sancho Moncasi, Daniel Speight

MA students in the course English in Transition II, 1500-1900, Uppsala University

Course director: Dr Erik Smitterberg

2021-2022: Alice Gagliardi Granato, Trevor Le Grand Irwin, Isabella Gerd Margareta Lindström, Therese Rita Kostet
2020-2021: Réka Barabási, Dolores Kawalec, Jens Nordlund, Ulrika Stark, Julianna Wretman Werner
2018-2019: Mohamed Abdulrahman, Maximilian Andreasson Vigerust, Shormi Khan Choua, Mariola Kotromanac, Asia Kulig, Richard Mole, Catharina Gaby Romero, Josef Vidén
2017-2018: Maria Aldén, Natalya Hobbs, Frida Kardell, Md Nazmus Saqueb Kathon, Yelizaveta Kazarina, Linda Norrgård, Jacob Veenhuizen, Theresa Zhao, Julia Öman
2016-2017: Anna Alina, Athena Bras, Katarina Saarnia, Nasrin Siyahtiri, Amanda Widmalm

Students in the module Historical Sociolinguistics: Speakers and Writers in Historical English, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Module leader: Dr Christine Wallis

2022
- MA students: Francesca Criscuolo, Alice Pagliani
- BA students: Laura Peter, Victor Wenger

Dissertation students

University of Manchester
- BA dissertation, 2011-2012, Andrew Gott
University of Vigo
- MA dissertation, 2020-2021, Celia Castro-Vázquez
- BA dissertation, 2018-2019, Emma Alonso-Ramonet
- MA dissertation, 2016-2017, Carla Seabra-Dacosta
- BA dissertation, 2014-2015, Adriana Pérez-Pazo, Nerea Rodríguez-Estévez

Volunteers

2021

Louise Ennis, MA Student, University of York
Emma Stanbridge, Doctoral Candidate, Keele University

2017-2018

Kate Gibson PhD student, University of Sheffield, and former Early Career Research Fellow, John Rylands Research Institute
Carmen Salas, student, University of Seville
Jane Scanlon, former MA student, University of Manchester
Fabienne Toupin, Professor of English Linguistics, University of Tours

2015-2016

MA students, University of Vigo: Sara Albán-Barcia, Noemí Antelo-Calvete, Laura García-Castro

Technical support

UoM IT Services, Digital Collections (Bryan Archer, Project Manager)
UoM Library
- TEI Project
- Research and Digital Horizons
John Rylands Library
- John Hodgson (Joint Head of Special Collections and Manuscripts and Archives Manager)
- Imaging Department
- Special Collections

Project collaborators

Andrew Hardie (UCREL, Lancaster)
Sebastian Hoffmann (Trier)
Nick Smith (Leicester)

External

James Cummings (Digital Humanities, Newcastle University)
Michael Hawkins (Technical Director, Darwin Project, Newton Project)
Martin Holmes (UVic Humanities Computing and Media Centre)
Huw Jones (Cambridge Digital Humanities Coordinator)
Miranda Lewis (Editor of Early Modern Letters Online)
Jack Orchard (Research Assistant, Elizabeth Montagu Letters)
Sabine Seifert (Theodor-Fontane-Archiv, Universität Potsdam)
Elizabeth Smith (Associate Editor – Technical Development, Darwin Project)
Christopher Whittick (Archivist, East Sussex County Council)
Lorna Clark (Department of English, Carleton University)
Stefan Dumont (correspSearch, Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities)

Libraries

Derbyshire Record Office, Derbyshire County Council
Houghton Library, Harvard University
Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University
New York Public Library, Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Preston Record Office, Lancashire Archives
Stanford University, Department of Special Collections
The British Library, London
The Georgian Papers Programme, The Royal Archives, Windsor: †Arthur Burns (Academic Director, King’s College London), Deborah Cornell (Head of Digital Services, William & Mary Libraries), Oliver Walton (Co-ordinator and Curator, Historical Papers Projects)
The Morgan Library & Museum, Department of Literary and Historical Manuscripts
Vassar College, Archives and Special Collections Library

Image to Text project

Technical support
- James McGrath (University of Manchester Research IT)
- Sebastian Hoffmann (academic, Trier)
- Henri Kauhanen (former student, Manchester, 2013-2014)
- University of Manchester IT Services

John Rylands Library, Deansgate
- John Hodgson (Joint Head of Special Collections and Manuscripts and Archives Manager)
- Carol Burrows (Heritage Imaging Manager until 2018)
- Fran Baker (Archivist)
- Lisa Crawley (Archivist)

External
- Marianne Hundt (Zurich)

Previous Funding (University of Manchester)

Undergraduate Scholars’ programme, 2019-2020
Learning through Research internship, 2019
John Rylands Research Institute, Seedcorn Grant, 2016-2017
Department of Linguistics and English Language, 2015-2018
G. L. Brook Bequest, 2014
Digitisation Strategy of the Centre of Heritage Imaging and Collection Care, 2011, 2014

Other

The Anson Family
Jacqueline Reiter
Paul Lindsay Dawson

Last updated 8 September 2024