Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

Refreshment as a dish best served cold

by | Jun 7, 2026 | Uncategorized

After July 2024 we'd planned the next refreshing of The Mary Hamilton Papers for summer 2025, and when that didn't happen, rescheduled it at several points in late 2025 and early 2026. Each time, some hitch prevented the update from going ahead — until now, but as a...

We ain't done yet

by | 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...

Edition complete!

by | 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...

Teaching with The Mary Hamilton Papers

by | 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...