uhh… fungi has language… up to 50 ‘words’ that can be arranged in ‘sentences’ derived from their electrical spiking activity. People thought fungi couldn’t get cooler AND IT JUST DID. Outrageous. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

The online launch of Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers has ended successfully - Warmest congratulations to the team! See MDC page (digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/collections/ma…), explore CQPweb (cqpweb.lancs.ac.uk/hamilton/) and go through the CFP for the edited volume (…ryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/call-for-paper…)!

The ad for Edge Hill’s English Lang, Lit and CW PhD/Graduate Teaching Assistant scheme is now live! Deadline: 9th Jan 2023, for an early Oct 2023 start date: jobs.edgehill.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?i… All advertised research themes within our research area: edgehill.ac.uk/departments/su…

Latest publication: A comparative investigation of anaphoric reference devices in Anglo Norman and Middle English personal letters. Open access: sciendo.com/article/10.147… #anglonorman #middleenglish #medievalletters

Johanna Green, July 21st 1983-July 20th 2023. It is with heavy hearts we mourn the loss of an exceptional teacher, scholar, and friend. Johanna's legacy will forever live on in the hearts of those she touched.

We are very sad to pass along news of the passing of Johanna Green. Many here will know her as Johanna Green and she was a leading scholar of bringing together medieval manuscripts and digital humanities medievalists.net/2023/07/johann…

And to add to this Creative Writing keeps its 5th place in the country and English is 8th! Well done to us Andrew McInnes @KymBrindle Dr Laura Eastlake Costas Gabrielatos Imogen Marcus Sarah Schofield Lee Thompson Dr Andrea Ashworth/AJ Ashworth TRUANT COMPANY Edge Hill Writing @EHUNineteen Edge Hill University Edge Hill Prize

New open access article with Dr Alpo Honkapohja: The long history of shortening: a diachronic analysis of abbreviation practices from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Roll up, roll up! Edge Hill Linguistics Research Group meeting: Weds 15 November, 4:30 pm (GMT) – online (MS Teams). Dr Sara Pons-Sanz (University of Cardiff, UK): 'An exploration of Orrm's Norse-Derived Vocabulary'. More info & registration link: store.edgehill.ac.uk/conferences-an…

Published this week, and arriving at my house this moment, is this beauty. I hope you’ll agree that, like the cover picture, this book reveals a Nan Shepherd we’ve not known before. Delighted with the classy cover and production courtesy of Edinburgh University Press

Next meeting of the EHU Linguistics Research Seminar Series: Weds 6th Dec, 4:30 pm – online. Prof. Louise Sylvester (University of Westminster, UK): 'Semantic integration of loanwords borrowed in the Middle English period'. All welcome! To register: store.edgehill.ac.uk/conferences-an…

Anyone who is interested in studying for a PhD in the department of English & Creative Arts Edge Hill University, please take a look at this funding opportunity - deadline in January: edgehill.ac.uk/departments/su… #Englishcreates University English English@EHU

The Mary Hamilton Papers online edition is now officially complete! 3201 items, half of them transcribed, including all her diaries. Do take a look at the edition (digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/collections/ma…) and project website (…ryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk).

Next talk (via Teams) in the Edge Hill Linguistics Research Seminar Series: 22nd Feb at 3pm, Dr Beth Mallory (UCL): 'A lexicon of relics: Tracing the diachronic evolution of diagnostic terminology in obstetrics and gynaecology'. To register: store.edgehill.ac.uk/conferences-an…

Very excited to be a part of EHU's 2024 seminar series! Looking forward to some fantastic sessions as well as talking all things Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers with Sophie Coulombeau on 29 Feb 🙂

Coming up 🗓️ 27 Nov, 2pm (via Teams): 'About ‘aboutness’ in the opening and closing statements of State of Minnesota v. Derek Michael Chauvin (2021)' Natalie Jones, Univ of Leeds Info and registration: sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lrg/forthcomin… Part of EHU Linguistics Research Group Speaker Series

Upcoming talk - 🗓️ 27 Jan '26, 2pm (via Teams): 'Sound transfer: the production of stops by bilingual speakers' Dr Niamh Kelly, Newcastle Univ. Abstract and registration: sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lrg/forthcomin… Part of the EHU Linguistics Research Group Speaker Series. Hope to see you there!

Time amendment for upcoming EHU Linguistics Research Group talk: - 🗓️ 27 Jan '26, now at 4:15pm (via Teams): 'Sound transfer: the production of stops by bilingual speakers' Dr Niamh Kelly, Newcastle Univ. Abstract and registration: sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lrg/forthcomin…

Upcoming EHU Linguistics Research Group talk - 🗓️ 26 Feb '26, 2pm (via Teams): 'Death by dictionary: investigating the link between surname death and lexical association' - Dr Harry Parkin, Univ of Chester. Abstract and registration: sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lrg/forthcomin….

Upcoming EHU Linguistics Research Group webinar: Thurs 26th March, 2-3pm (online via Teams). 'Media Representations of Blindness in UK Newspapers: A Corpus-Based Study' - Dr Costas Gabrielatos, Dr Valeria Occelli (EHU). Abstract and registeration link: sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lrg/speaker-se…