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...
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...
