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Mel Evans

@melevans.bsky.social

Lecturer, lover of language, early modern history, sociolinguistics and digital/tech. Trail runner and occasional duathlete. Vegan. Parent-in-training (7yrs and ongoing, needs work)

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Better late than never? Or early birds catching worms?
This Saturday I'm at Uni of Leeds Be Curious festival for the first time. We're inviting people to think proverbially for a new AHRC project on Shakespeare & early modern proverbial culture, w/ Richard Meek and Brotherton cultural collections

15.05.2025 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wrangling with OCR text checking this morning. Still a grind but so so much better than it used to be! Only a bit of %£÷£353dfsfgnroa !!! Ddatext stuff ddmsmama !@+÷// to work through

16.09.2024 09:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Digital Correspondence: transhistorical perspectives on language, materials and corpora | UK-Ireland...

Today is the launch event for the Digital Correspondence Community Interest Group!
Join us for 'Conversations about Correspondence' with Julia Gillen, Callum McKean and Niall O'Leary!
See bit.ly/49N9uXu for details and the Zoom link
@drhelennewsome.bsky.social

22.11.2023 06:55 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Zooming downhill on my way back from Edinburgh. The Tweed looking nice, as ever

14.11.2023 15:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Off to Edinburgh next week to visit the Library and the Archives. Any tips for productive and fun working? (Other than running up Arthur's seat which I've put in the diary)

10.11.2023 13:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Delighted to be at the launch event of the Digital Creativity and Cultures Hub at University of Leeds today. It's in a v swanky room, too!

11.10.2023 11:25 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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