HEL (History of the English Language) on the Web

Secret mission was successful! We celebrated Claudia Lange's 60th birthday & delivered the Festschrift "Evolving Englishes" (out now with Routledge) 🎉

Plese repost & share! *THE OPEN ACCESS COMPANION TO THE CANTERBURY TALES*, a free, scholar-produced onlyne resource for teachinge and learninge *The Canterbury Tales* at the universitye level: opencanterburytales.lsusites.org

Research Assistant/Associate at Newcastle University Discover Research Assistant/Associate jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

Research Assistant/Associate to play a key role in the ESRC/NSF-funded project, "INvestigating and Treebanking Scots And Yiddish Together (InTSaYT)" at Newcastle University @newcastleuni.bsky.social
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📢 The 2025 #TOEBI Newsletter is here‼️
💻 Available to download now from our website
🔗 www.toebi.org.uk/toebi-newsle...
✍️ Edited by Francisco J. Rozano-García and Claire Poynton-Smith
📝Featuring reports on the latest #OldEnglish pedagogical resources, the Kemble Lecture & book reviews.
#️⃣ #medievalsky

Universität Basel: PhD position in English linguistics As of August 1, 2026, the Department of Languages and Literatures of the University of Basel (English division, Prof. Miriam Locher) is seeking to fill a 60% PhD position in English linguistics. The p...

Opportunity for a PhD candidate in English linguistics. Please repost.
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The CMS Summer Latin Program is now taught exclusively online! Register for one of three levels to receive unmatched Latin instruction at U of T.
uoft.me/CMS-Latin
• May 11-July 23 - Beginning Latin
• May 5-June 26 - Level I Latin
• July 2-August 7 - Level II Latin
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: May 1

Hwaet! The Beowulf manuscript (Cotton MS Vitellius A XV) is now back online.

You can consult the entire manuscript through the online catalogue:

searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/040-...

📢 Deadline extended: 30 April 2026‼️
📜 Theme: All Kinds of People
📚 TOEBI is a supportive and collegial conference open to anyone involved in the teaching of Old English at any level.
🏫 Host: University of Nottingham
📅 Date: Saturday, 24th October 2026
#️⃣ #CfP #TOEBI #medievalsky #OldEnglish

This just out: a Finnish-language collection of Old English literature. 'When the Swords Sang' includes two chapters I co-authored, and I also tried my hand at translating bits of the A-S Chronicle. Publisher: Gaudeamus.

Review of Porck, Gordon & Caon (2024): Keys to the History of English: Diachronic Linguistic Change, Morpho-syntax and Lexicography benjamins.com/catalog/dia....

Galileo’s handwritten notes found in ancient astronomy text Discovery sheds new light on how famed astronomer came to lead a scientific revolution

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the conference website for the 9th conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English is live now: isle9conference.com
KU Leuven, 24-27 May 2027
#ISLE9

PIMS home to rare Bible dating to 1500s Thanks to a donation from Tony Comper, the former Bank of Montreal CEO and longtime board chair of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies at the University of St. Michael’s College, a complete ...

"PIMS home to rare Bible dating to 1500s: Toronto Pontifical Institute receives first-edition Douay-Rheims Bible"
www.catholicregister.org/item/3513-pi...

Does someone know anything about the practice of using a comma instead of an apostrophe? I've so far come across two writers doing this: one is late-18th century, and the other (pictured here) unknown but I reckon late-18th to mid-19th century. #spelling #punctuation #manuscripts

The Medieval Monk: Blog The Medieval Monk uses humour to convey knowledge about medieval culture

📢Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky!
📜Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week
📖 The Medieval Monk
📲 www.themedievalmonk.com/blog
✍️ Christopher Monk

Like Old English, dictionaries, and/or nineteenth century scholarship? Save the date for an online event celebrating Joseph Bosworth and his Old English dictionary.
Register (free!) here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Undergraduate Students Deliver New Translation of 13th-Century Medieval Drama - University of St. Michael's College Two Medieval Studies students have created a splash with their translation of a 13th-century Biblical-miracle play, a work they hope to see published soon.  Meagan Mellor and Lauren Saxberg were study...

Undergraduate Students Deliver New Translation of 13th-Century Medieval Drama @utoronto.ca
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Library Catalogues and / as Research Data: the hidden voices of early printed books in the John Rylands
Free and online via Teams. Booking essential via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/john-rylands-research-institute-and-library-17289731815

Free, onlyne, searchable Middel Englisshe Dictionarye. "The world's largest searchable database of Middle English lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500."
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Viking Age mass grave unearthed near Cambridge with remains of ‘extremely tall’ man Tall individual was somewhere between 17 and 24 years old, with evidence indicating he may have had a hormone-related growth condition

Viking Age mass grave unearthed near Cambridge with remains of ‘extremely tall’ man who had brain surgery

Tall individual was somewhere between 17 and 24 years old, with evidence indicating he may have had a hormone-related growth condition

© Cambridge Archaeological Unit/David Matzliach

Jobs: General Linguistics, Phonetics: Lecturer in Linguistics (Teaching & Scholarship), Queen Mary University of London Other Specialties: History of English Description: The Department of Linguistics, within the School of the Arts, is looking to appoint a Lecturer in Linguistics (Teaching and Scholarship) to cover a staff member on externally funded research leave. Duties will include convening, teaching and marking on the following modules: (i) LIN5224 Speech, Hearing, and Phonetic Sciences, (ii) LIN212 History of English, (iii) LIN7010 Sociophonetics, and (iv) LIN7078 Analysing Language Datasets. T

Jobs: General Linguistics, Phonetics: Lecturer in Linguistics (Teaching & Scholarship), Queen Mary University of London

How did ancient innovators understand phonetics before linguistics existed? Dr. Danny Bate joins the Department of Language and Linguistic Science on 12 February to discuss linguistic thinking in the history of the alphabet.

Read more: www.york.ac.uk/langu...

#langsky #linguistics

full-time assistantship in Historical Sociolinguistics
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home.digitaltolkien.com now supports searching P-texts in Volume 10.

A book of English firsts, this book explores hawking, hunting and heraldry. 🦅🏹🛡️

By Juliana Berners, this is the first English printed work authored by a woman. It also contains the first images printed in colour in England.

📕 Boke of St Albans, 1486 (10001)

Is the Dictionary Done For? The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a revolution.

"Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language, published in London in 1755, carved out a role for the dictionary: to establish what would become known as Standard English. Johnson himself was aware that language is a living thing, always in flux.... www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Only 4 days left to sign up for this free webinar on ‘How to Start Learning Grant Writing’ on Wed 28 Jan 4pm CET / 5pm GMT—there are still a few places left!

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Beowulf, the Nibelungenlied, and the Medieval Germanic Courtier Narrative The present article catalogues and analyzes a collection of motifs that Beowulf shares with the Nibelungenlied. It argues that these motifs constitute a courtier narrative, which focuses on a hero’...

📜 In “Beowulf, the Nibelungenlied, and the Medieval Germanic Courtier Narrative,” Leonard Neidorf sheds new light on how #Beowulf and Nibelungenlied hold similar literary motifs as courtier narratives that experiment with aesthetic form and character development. Check out the entire article👇:

'An Introduction to the New Cambridge History of the English Language' is the blog post by Raymond Hickey, editor of THE NEW CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
📚 https://cup.org/4qKArmv