HEL (History of the English Language) on the Web

📣 We will be present at the 8th Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (isLE8), Santiago de Compostela, 1-4 September!

📚 Check out our promo material and discount order form here: 👉 benjamins.com/conferences/...

📚 And come browse our books at the exhibit!

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I realise the high price point of the book, but this 20% discount should ease some of the pain. For full contents and details, go to www.cambridge.org/ca/universit... #medievalsky

Imagining Medieval Women - 27 East Amagansett resident David Townsend talks about medieval women mystics Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe and his forthcoming historical novel, The Ram in the Thicket.

August 13 - "Imagining Medieval Women" David Townsend talks about medieval women mystics Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe, and his forthcoming historical novel, "The Ram in the Thicket"
www.27east.com/events/imagi...

Call for Papers (deadline: 1 September, 2025):
'Old English in the Long Nineteenth Century'
(IMC Leeds, 6-9 July 2026)
@imc-leeds.bsky.social

I find Pouncy’s work (and he was an established artist) quite remarkable. He provides extracts from the Rushworth Gospels here (MS is digitized on Bodleian’s website) with a derived alphabet of the uncials and minuscules, inc. the glossing hand.

Frontispiece portrait of Henry Greenwood.

Why did readers write on or alter printed images?

Our new online exhibition, 'Extra-Illustrations and Annotated Illustrations in Early Modern Books', explores how readers engaged with their books.

Explore the exhibition here: ow.ly/VkF850WpQH5

Calls: 8th Annual Meeting of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics Co-Located with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting This event offers an opportunity for historical sociolinguistics scholars from all over the world to gather and share leading research. We encourage our fellow historical sociolinguists and scholars in related fields from our global scholarly community to join us in New Orleans for our Eighth Annual Meeting. Consult this Call for Abstracts on the web: https://narnihs.org/?page_id=3135 . 2nd Call for Papers: Abstra

Calls: 8th Annual Meeting of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics

#OTD 219 years ago, Johann Kaspar Zeuß (1806-1856) was born 🥳 He was an expert on Celtic history and culture and the author of the Historical Grammar of the Celtic Language (1853), definitively proving that Celtic languages are part of the Indo-European family.

#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Conference: New Directions in Old English Prose

📢 #CfP #medievalsky #OldEnglish
⏰Reminder: Submission deadline: 1st August 2025‼️
📜New Directions in Old English Prose
📲Details: roep.web.ox.ac.uk/event/confer...
🏫University of Oxford
📅30-31 March 2026

medieval illumination of a rabbit blowing a buisine

Congratulations to Sebastian Sobecki (@sebsobecki.bsky.social), who, with Ladan Niayesh, has received a grant for "Re-Orienting Female Mobility in the Early Global World", a project which will also involve Laura Ingallinella (@lauraingalli.bsky.social)! uoft.me/bIU

📢Call for Contributions‼️
📜Early Medieval Riddles Session
📍International Medieval Congress (IMC), Leeds
📅6-9th July 2026
📲Send abstracts to Megan Cavell (University of Birmingham)
& Jennifer Neville (Royal Holloway University of London)
⏰Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, 10th September 2025.

Ancient DNA solves mystery of Hungarian, Finnish language origins — Harvard Gazette Parent emerged over 4,000 years ago in Siberia, farther east than many thought, then rapidly spread west, study finds.

Ancient DNA solves mystery of Hungarian, Finnish language family’s origins @harvard.edu
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Girton Fellows solve a 130-year-old Chaucerian literary mystery

I'm so thrilled to have this published! Starting from a chat over lunch at @girtoncollege.bsky.social, James Wade & I chipped away at this & have made some fascinating discoveries.

The actual article should be published later today. In the meantime, more here: www.cam.ac.uk/stories/song...

A 900-Year-Old Typo May Unravel a Chaucer Mystery

Scribes are human too. And let's be honest: who among us hasn't confused wynn [ƿ] with [y]? Well done, @sebfalk.com! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/w...

Lost English legend decoded, solving a Chaucerian mystery and revealing a medieval preacher’s meme Decoding a lost English legend, solving a Chaucerian mystery, and revealing a medieval preacher’s meme

After 130 years, Cambridge #scholars have decoded a Chaucerian mystery – the frequently referenced Song of Wade was not a monster-filled epic but a chivalric romance.

Drs James Wade and @sebfalk.com from‬ @girtoncollege.bsky.social reveal all: www.cam.ac.uk/stories/song...

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#OTD 165 years ago, Otto Jespersen (1860–1943) was born 🥳 Initially a specialist in language teaching and phonetics, he later became an expert on English historical syntax, also active in the international language movement, contributing to Esperanto, Ido, and Novial.

#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

CFP - Call for Papers | Call for Workshops Below you’ll find the Call for Papers and Call for Workshops, along with Word templates for both. Abstracts for Full Papers, Work-in-Progress Reports, Software Dem...

The Call for Papers and Call for Workshops for ICAME47, May 26-30 2026 in Koblenz, Germany, now out
Submission deadlines 31 October 2025.

Calls and conference dates here: wp.uni-koblenz.de/icame47/

Conference email address: icame47@uni-koblenz.de

Cover of English Phonetics and Phonology

Out now!

Frank Lorenz's English Phonetics and Phonology | A foundational overview of the science of speech sounds, presenting the key skills needed to differentiate between letters and sounds.

#LangSky #Linguistics

Find out more: ☑️ cup.org/4lLCC7j

📢 Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky!
📜 Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week...
📖Electronic Beowulf 4.0
📲 ebeowulf.uky.edu/ebeo4.0/
✍️ Kevin Kiernan, Editor
💻 Emil Iacob, Software Engineer
©️ University of Kentucky

Like English, Spanish is constantly evolving. Unlike some English speakers, we welcome that | María Ramírez Purists’ attempts to police our global languages are doomed – there’s joy and inspiration in new expressions from all over the world, says journalist María Ramírez

Like English, Spanish is constantly evolving. Unlike some English speakers, we welcome that | María Ramírez

📢Call for Contributions‼️
📜New Directions in #OldEnglish Pedagogy: Instructional Simulations in Beginning Old English
📍International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS), Kalamazoo
📅May 14-16, 2026
📲Send abstracts to Donna Beth Ellard (University of Denver)
& Simon Thomson (HHU Düsseldorf)

screenshot of REED website with text reading Newington Butts Playhouse Timeline and image of a digital map

New Records of Early English Drama digital publication: Newington Butts Playhouse, edited by Sally-Beth MacLean, Alum and Professor Emerita, University of Toronto, and REED's Director of Research and General Editor.
ereed.org/timelines/nw...

The open access version is available here 🔓🪄:👇
academic.oup.com/book/59790
#MedievalSky

Phonological Drift and Language Contact Cambridge Core - Phonetics and Phonology - Phonological Drift and Language Contact

Using advances in linguistic theory this book explains multiple unusual sound patterns that occur in different languages of northern Europe.

Phonological Drift and Language Contact by Pavel Iosad, Out Now

#LangSky #Linguistics 💙📚

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Australia can't withstand further humanities cuts The Australian Academy of Humanities views with great concern the impact on staff, students and the wider community of the ANU’s plan for the humanities and social sciences. Now is not the time to red...

Australia can’t withstand further humanities cuts. Civil society depends on it.
While universities have the right to determine their education & research priorities, no one in Australia has a handle on the effects of cuts & their impact on our national skills & knowledge capabilities. bit.ly/3TqI4jn

The Vivien Law Prize — Henry Sweet Society The Vivien Law Prize

✨Vivien Law Essay Prize in the history of linguistic ideas✨
Deadline: 30th September 2025
If you are: a currently registered student or received your PhD/equivalent within the last five years (maternity leave excluded)
See details and get your submissions ready!👇
www.henrysweet.org/vivien-law-p...

The word hoard: The language of Lewis Carroll

📖 Inside Babel's Summer issue...

🐱 Simon Horobin falls down the rabbit hole of the curiouser and curiouser language of toves and borogroves...

📢 Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky!
📜 Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week...
📖 The Dictionary of Old English (DOE)
💻 (subscription required)
📲 doe.artsci.utoronto.ca
©️ University of Toronto

Will we see you at Leeds International #Medieval Congress next week? Stop by our stand to browse over 100 brand new titles, chat with our editors or grab a bargain with 50% off most books. @imc-leeds.bsky.social #Medievalsky #IMS2025

The Corpus of Women’s Instructive Texts in English (CoWITE; 1550–1899) has been added to CoRD:
varieng.helsinki.fi/CoRD/corpora...
#corpusresources