Here’s the schedule for our inaugural Chester Stylistics Seminar Series 2021-22 🥳. (And there’s no time clash with English at Aston University’s excellent Literary Linguistics series!) Thanks again to all involved. First up, Dr Helen Ringrow on 13th Oct. Details of how to attend are 👇🏻

You can now register your place for the English Place-Names Society Annual Lecture. The 2021 lecture is from Dr Angus Winchester, Emeritus Professor of History at Lancaster University Register your spot: nottingham.ac.uk/english/events

Paul Flanagan inspiring English Language students today at this online event #StudyEnglish #EnglishLanguage

Our Chester Stylistics Seminar Series organised by Dr Clara Neary starts tomorrow (Weds 13th Oct) at 3pm with a talk by Dr Helen Ringrow on "Instagram advertisements as narrative (re)tellings". All welcome. Click here to join the meeting: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/…

The University of Nottingham is hosting two interesting online talks this weekend. The Cameron Lecture: Tania Styles, ‘English place-names and the OED: surveying the landscape’, and The EPNS Lecture: Angus Winchester, ‘Field-names and agrarian history: reflections from Cumbria’.

#ChesterStylistics A reminder that all are welcome to attend Jane Lugea’s online research seminar next Wed. 10th Nov at 3pm. Email me (address below) to attend all seminars in the series or feel free to drop in next Wed using this link: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/…

Very pleased to have a paper on borrowing, obsolescence and polysemy in Middle English technical vocab, co-authored with Louise Sylvester and Richard Ingham, in peterlang.com/document/10690…. Some great work on Medieval England and Middle English in this volume! UoC English

Our UoC English seminar series for anyone studying, thinking of studying, or supporting students of A-Level English begins next Wednesday with a fascinating talk by my colleague Dr @AlexTankard4. All these talks have a theme of 'university' underpinning them, so please join us!

Looking forward to our final UoC English Excel in English session of 2021 next week: a Christmas special from me, Harry Parkin, @AlexTankard4 & graham atkin. Enjoy some Christmas corpora, etymologies, creative writing and Scrooge-themed discussion with us on Wednesday 15th at 5pm!

Due to the changes for our Spring conference, a few spaces are open. If you are interested in presenting, please contact [email protected] by 18 January 2022 with a title and brief outline. There is no set theme for the conference, so any topic on names and naming is welcome

Just a reminder that the next speaker in the #ChesterStylistics seminar series will be Dr Chloe Harrison on Wed. 9th Feb. 3-4pm via Teams. Pls feel free to email me to attend; details below.

Really looking forward to Dr Chloe Harrison presenting her research at the upcoming #ChesterStylistics seminar this Wed. 9th Feb 3-4pm🥳You're all very welcome to join via this link or by emailing me (details below): teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/…

Dr Rebecca Gregory (Becca Gregory) is quoted in this fascinating article about 'fitting' in to a name and just how much that matters. A touching personal analysis by Camilla Balshaw. theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

Final reminder of tomorrow's #ChesterStylistics research seminar featuring Simon Statham doing a multimodal stylistic analysis of The Sopranos 😎. Really looking forward to it, Simon!! The link is available to all here: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/…

6th ‘#Onomastics #Online’ #Lecture on October 19, 2022 icosweb.net/blog/2022/10/1… #Metaphor and #Metonymy in #Names Carole #Hough, University of #Glasgow #ICOS online lecture 19 October 2022

Did you know the EPNS is 100 years old? We're celebrating our centenary this year, and are holding an event in Nottingham on 9 September featuring a range of speakers, including a public lecture by Prof. David Crystal. Mark your diaries, and watch this space for registration!

We're having a birthday party! 🎂 Join us on 9 September Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN's Jubilee Conference Centre for a jam-packed day of place-names papers celebrating our centenary, all topped off with a lecture from Prof. David Crystal. Registration and info at: nottingham.ac.uk/research/group…

Next Thursday (4/7 at 1pm) at the Festival of Ideas, Harry Parkin and I introduce our UoC English funded digital project Learn Old English. There will be costumes 😎 Book onto our event at Storyhouse at the following link: festivalofideas.chester.ac.uk/event/learn-ol…

#CfP alert. We're pleased to share the details on our forthcoming SNSBI autumn day conference - which will be held in York on Saturday 19 October as a hybrid event. If you would like to present, please find initial details on the poster attached.

Interested in surnames? Come to my talk ‘Surnames: Past, Present and Future’, 11:30-12:30, 3rd July in Chester Town Hall for the Festival of Ideas. The whole festival is free! Book your place via this link! #ChesterIdeas ⁦University of Chester⁩ festivalofideas.chester.ac.uk/event/the-stor…