HEL (History of the English Language) on the Web
@helontheweb.bsky.social
Shares the latest news about HEL. Posts by Dr Ayumi Miura (Associate Professor @utokyoofficial.bsky.social; she/her), who runs the website 'HEL on the Web' (2009-): https://sites.google.com/view/helontheweb/
Pinned
The six volumes of the New Cambridge History of the English Language (NewCHEL @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org) are allegedly well under way, with the first three due out in the autumn and the other three appearing a few months later: cambridge.org/CHEL
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🥂 Congratulations to Eleonora Serra on the publication of her monograph on linguistic prestige in 16th-century Italy.
🔗 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111242811/html#overview
#Linguistics #Sociolinguistics #Italian
🔗 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111242811/html#overview
#Linguistics #Sociolinguistics #Italian
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
🥂 Congratulations to Eleonora Serra on the publication of her monograph on linguistic prestige in 16th-century Italy.
🔗 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111242811/html#overview
#Linguistics #Sociolinguistics #Italian
🔗 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111242811/html#overview
#Linguistics #Sociolinguistics #Italian
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I'm delighted to say that the recording my Historical Research lecture for @ihr.bsky.social (4 November, 2025) is now available to view online. I reflect on my own experience of writing a 'trade' book, and conclude with a manifesto for #radical #popular #history.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Historical Research Lecture 2025 | Can popular history be radical? Historical research and writing for the public
Historical Research Lecture 2025
www.history.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I'm delighted to say that the recording my Historical Research lecture for @ihr.bsky.social (4 November, 2025) is now available to view online. I reflect on my own experience of writing a 'trade' book, and conclude with a manifesto for #radical #popular #history.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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#OTD 175 years ago, Eduard Sievers (1850–1935) was born 🎂 A historical linguist and one of the leading Neogrammarians, he is best known for his analysis of Old English metre and for formulating the so-called Sievers’ Law.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
November 25, 2025 at 9:21 AM
#OTD 175 years ago, Eduard Sievers (1850–1935) was born 🎂 A historical linguist and one of the leading Neogrammarians, he is best known for his analysis of Old English metre and for formulating the so-called Sievers’ Law.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
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yo nerds
take a online class with me
read books ’n’ stuff
take a online class with me
read books ’n’ stuff
Course | Reading Johnson and Boswell with Jack Lynch | Virtual — The Rosenbach Museum & Library
Over the course of four biweekly meetings we’ll read some of Johnson’s most important works—essays, poems, fiction, travel narratives, biography—and selections from Boswell’s Life . The focus will al...
www.rosenbach.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:41 AM
yo nerds
take a online class with me
read books ’n’ stuff
take a online class with me
read books ’n’ stuff
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📢Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky!
📜Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week
📖Woruldhord
📲 english.web.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord
✍️Project Director: Stuart Lee
📝Research Officers: Anna Caughey and Tom Birkett
©️University of Oxford
📜Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week
📖Woruldhord
📲 english.web.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord
✍️Project Director: Stuart Lee
📝Research Officers: Anna Caughey and Tom Birkett
©️University of Oxford
November 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
📢Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky!
📜Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week
📖Woruldhord
📲 english.web.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord
✍️Project Director: Stuart Lee
📝Research Officers: Anna Caughey and Tom Birkett
©️University of Oxford
📜Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week
📖Woruldhord
📲 english.web.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord
✍️Project Director: Stuart Lee
📝Research Officers: Anna Caughey and Tom Birkett
©️University of Oxford
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Colonisation, eh?
I wonder who got that started?
I wonder who got that started?
We've just recorded an interview with @lynneguist.bsky.social for the @lexispodcast.bsky.social and then this absolute whopper of a piece gets published. It's jam-packed with clichéd complaints, hoary hyperbole & xenophobic waffle.
archive.ph/2025.11.24-0...
archive.ph/2025.11.24-0...
November 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Colonisation, eh?
I wonder who got that started?
I wonder who got that started?
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Confs: Grammaticalization and Diachronic Construction Grammar: Convergences and Challenges
Confs: Grammaticalization and Diachronic Construction Grammar: Convergences and Challenges
Keynote Speakers:
Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck, Leipzig)
Martin Hilpert (Uni. of Neuchâtel)
Sophie Prévost (CNRS – Lattice)
Graeme Trousdale (Uni. of Edinburgh)
Keynote Discussant:
Bernd Heine (Uni. of Cologne)
‘Grammaticalization’ (a term introduced by Meillet in 1912) has been the subject of numerous studies, which have highlighted regularities in the emergence of grammatical forms across typologically diverse languages. Grammaticalization refers both to a type of change (and somet
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November 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Confs: Grammaticalization and Diachronic Construction Grammar: Convergences and Challenges
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#AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems is one of the best poetry books of 2025 in the Financial Times / FT Weekend! This makes me so happy - especially as it's most definitely a #poetry #book for poetry sceptics. If you love #history, why not have a look and see where poetry can take us...?
November 23, 2025 at 8:31 AM
#AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems is one of the best poetry books of 2025 in the Financial Times / FT Weekend! This makes me so happy - especially as it's most definitely a #poetry #book for poetry sceptics. If you love #history, why not have a look and see where poetry can take us...?
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📢 #CfP #medievalsky #OldEnglish
📜Beowulf & Circulations Conference
📲Details: cemasorbonne.org
🏫Centre d’Études Médiévales Anglaises (Sorbonne Université)
🗣️Keynotes: Irina Dumitrescu (Universität Bonn) & Francis Leneghan (Oxford University).
📅March 13-14, 2026
⏰Submission deadline: 10 January, 2026‼️
📜Beowulf & Circulations Conference
📲Details: cemasorbonne.org
🏫Centre d’Études Médiévales Anglaises (Sorbonne Université)
🗣️Keynotes: Irina Dumitrescu (Universität Bonn) & Francis Leneghan (Oxford University).
📅March 13-14, 2026
⏰Submission deadline: 10 January, 2026‼️
(no title)
CEMA
cemasorbonne.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
📢 #CfP #medievalsky #OldEnglish
📜Beowulf & Circulations Conference
📲Details: cemasorbonne.org
🏫Centre d’Études Médiévales Anglaises (Sorbonne Université)
🗣️Keynotes: Irina Dumitrescu (Universität Bonn) & Francis Leneghan (Oxford University).
📅March 13-14, 2026
⏰Submission deadline: 10 January, 2026‼️
📜Beowulf & Circulations Conference
📲Details: cemasorbonne.org
🏫Centre d’Études Médiévales Anglaises (Sorbonne Université)
🗣️Keynotes: Irina Dumitrescu (Universität Bonn) & Francis Leneghan (Oxford University).
📅March 13-14, 2026
⏰Submission deadline: 10 January, 2026‼️
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#OTD 152 years ago, Matteo Giulio Bartoli (1873–1946) was born 🎂 A historical linguist and dialectologist, he is best known for his descriptions of the now-extinct Dalmatian language. He is also known as the founder of the linguistic school known as Neolinguistics.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
November 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
#OTD 152 years ago, Matteo Giulio Bartoli (1873–1946) was born 🎂 A historical linguist and dialectologist, he is best known for his descriptions of the now-extinct Dalmatian language. He is also known as the founder of the linguistic school known as Neolinguistics.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
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How lovely to find #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems on the list of the BBC History Magazine Books of the Year! And picked by the brilliant Alice Loxton, who I so enjoyed sharing a stage with at the Cheltenham Literature Festival in October. Thank you!
www.historyextra.com/magazine/his... #book #history
www.historyextra.com/magazine/his... #book #history
November 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
How lovely to find #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems on the list of the BBC History Magazine Books of the Year! And picked by the brilliant Alice Loxton, who I so enjoyed sharing a stage with at the Cheltenham Literature Festival in October. Thank you!
www.historyextra.com/magazine/his... #book #history
www.historyextra.com/magazine/his... #book #history
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#Talk: 'From Nation to Local: Re-Discovering England’s Places through #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems'. What happens to our understanding of the nation when we start at the very smallest scale? Friday 28 November, 3pm, University of Leicester - all welcome! www.englishlocalhistory.org/wp/2025/09/2...
November 22, 2025 at 10:36 AM
#Talk: 'From Nation to Local: Re-Discovering England’s Places through #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems'. What happens to our understanding of the nation when we start at the very smallest scale? Friday 28 November, 3pm, University of Leicester - all welcome! www.englishlocalhistory.org/wp/2025/09/2...
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#OTD 238 years ago, Rasmus Rask (1787–1832) was born 🎉 A comparative historical linguist and author of a number of grammar books, he is today best known for showing the systematic links between the (North) Germanic languages and other Indo-European languages.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
November 22, 2025 at 10:38 AM
#OTD 238 years ago, Rasmus Rask (1787–1832) was born 🎉 A comparative historical linguist and author of a number of grammar books, he is today best known for showing the systematic links between the (North) Germanic languages and other Indo-European languages.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
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@merriam-webster.com just released the first new print edition of its Collegiate Dictionary in 22 years — and it weighs five pounds! So of course, I had questions. :)
In today's podcast, I talk with @petersokolowski.bsky.social about why print still matters.
APPLE PODCASTS: bit.ly/3LMhwbL
In today's podcast, I talk with @petersokolowski.bsky.social about why print still matters.
APPLE PODCASTS: bit.ly/3LMhwbL
November 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
@merriam-webster.com just released the first new print edition of its Collegiate Dictionary in 22 years — and it weighs five pounds! So of course, I had questions. :)
In today's podcast, I talk with @petersokolowski.bsky.social about why print still matters.
APPLE PODCASTS: bit.ly/3LMhwbL
In today's podcast, I talk with @petersokolowski.bsky.social about why print still matters.
APPLE PODCASTS: bit.ly/3LMhwbL
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Here’s another fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on guilds and associations supporting early modern language professionals bit.ly/49rsLA3
Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026
Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026
PhD position, project LangPro: 'Societies and Guilds in the Language Industry'
PhD position, project LangPro: 'Societies and Guilds in the Language Industry'
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November 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Here’s another fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on guilds and associations supporting early modern language professionals bit.ly/49rsLA3
Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026
Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026
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📢 #CfP #medievalsky #Ovid
📜Teaching with Ovid: An online pedagogy symposium
📅12-13 June 2026
📃The International Ovidian Society and the Societas Ovidiana invite paper proposals on any aspect of teaching Ovid in the classroom
📲Details: shorturl.at/RiviU
⏰Submission deadline: Friday 16 January 2026‼️
📜Teaching with Ovid: An online pedagogy symposium
📅12-13 June 2026
📃The International Ovidian Society and the Societas Ovidiana invite paper proposals on any aspect of teaching Ovid in the classroom
📲Details: shorturl.at/RiviU
⏰Submission deadline: Friday 16 January 2026‼️
November 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
📢 #CfP #medievalsky #Ovid
📜Teaching with Ovid: An online pedagogy symposium
📅12-13 June 2026
📃The International Ovidian Society and the Societas Ovidiana invite paper proposals on any aspect of teaching Ovid in the classroom
📲Details: shorturl.at/RiviU
⏰Submission deadline: Friday 16 January 2026‼️
📜Teaching with Ovid: An online pedagogy symposium
📅12-13 June 2026
📃The International Ovidian Society and the Societas Ovidiana invite paper proposals on any aspect of teaching Ovid in the classroom
📲Details: shorturl.at/RiviU
⏰Submission deadline: Friday 16 January 2026‼️
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Come be my colleague!
The Yale Dept of Linguistics is hiring a 3-year Lecturer in Historical Linguistics. There's a great group here working on language change, and you could become part of it!
Application review begins Dec 14. For more info, see apply.interfolio.com/177395
The Yale Dept of Linguistics is hiring a 3-year Lecturer in Historical Linguistics. There's a great group here working on language change, and you could become part of it!
Application review begins Dec 14. For more info, see apply.interfolio.com/177395
Apply - Interfolio
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November 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Come be my colleague!
The Yale Dept of Linguistics is hiring a 3-year Lecturer in Historical Linguistics. There's a great group here working on language change, and you could become part of it!
Application review begins Dec 14. For more info, see apply.interfolio.com/177395
The Yale Dept of Linguistics is hiring a 3-year Lecturer in Historical Linguistics. There's a great group here working on language change, and you could become part of it!
Application review begins Dec 14. For more info, see apply.interfolio.com/177395
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Summer Schools: International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) Summer School 2026, Uppsala, Sweden
Summer Schools: International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) Summer School 2026, Uppsala, Sweden
Focus: Theme: 'English in transition: Socio-cultural encounters across time and space'
Description:
The ISLE Summer School 2026 will take place at Uppsala University, Sweden, from 7th to 13th June 2026. The Summer School theme is 'English in transition: Socio-cultural encounters across time and space'. The academic programme includes courses, plenaries, roundtable disucssions, poster sessions, expert consultancy, and a day trip to see selected runic inscriptions in the area.
Our six co
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November 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Summer Schools: International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) Summer School 2026, Uppsala, Sweden
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PUB DAY for DICTIONARY
Merriam-Webster, the country’s oldest dictionary publisher which is headquartered in Springfield, just released an updated Collegiate edition with 5,000 new entries.
Merriam-Webster goes old school with first new hardcover Collegiate dictionary in 22 years
Merriam-Webster, the country’s oldest dictionary publisher which is headquartered in Springfield, just released an updated Collegiate edition with 5,000 new entries.
www.wbur.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
PUB DAY for DICTIONARY
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Some more on the Cambridge #WOTY2025 here along with some commentary on their shortlist and ones they've been watching. Not glazing* when I say there are some snazzy graphics.
dictionary.cambridge.org/editorial/wo...
dictionary.cambridge.org/editorial/wo...
The Cambridge Dictionary Word of the Year 2025
Cambridge Dictionary has announced parasocial as its Word of the Year 2025. Learn what parasocial relationships mean in social media, AI companions, fandom culture and celebrity obsession.
dictionary.cambridge.org
November 18, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Some more on the Cambridge #WOTY2025 here along with some commentary on their shortlist and ones they've been watching. Not glazing* when I say there are some snazzy graphics.
dictionary.cambridge.org/editorial/wo...
dictionary.cambridge.org/editorial/wo...
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📢 Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky!
📜 Here's is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week
📖Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)
📲 pase.ac.uk
✍️Janet L. Nelson, Simon Keynes, David Pelteret, Francesca Tinti, Stephen Baxter, Alex Burghart, et al.
©️King’s College, London.
📜 Here's is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week
📖Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)
📲 pase.ac.uk
✍️Janet L. Nelson, Simon Keynes, David Pelteret, Francesca Tinti, Stephen Baxter, Alex Burghart, et al.
©️King’s College, London.
November 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
📢 Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky!
📜 Here's is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week
📖Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)
📲 pase.ac.uk
✍️Janet L. Nelson, Simon Keynes, David Pelteret, Francesca Tinti, Stephen Baxter, Alex Burghart, et al.
©️King’s College, London.
📜 Here's is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week
📖Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)
📲 pase.ac.uk
✍️Janet L. Nelson, Simon Keynes, David Pelteret, Francesca Tinti, Stephen Baxter, Alex Burghart, et al.
©️King’s College, London.
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📢 #CfP #medievalsky #OldEnglish
📜Beowulf & Circulations Conference
📲Details: cemasorbonne.org
🏫Centre d’Études Médiévales Anglaises (Sorbonne Université)
🗣️Keynotes: Irina Dumitrescu (Universität Bonn) & Francis Leneghan (Oxford University).
📅March 13-14, 2026
⏰Submission deadline: 10 January, 2026‼️
📜Beowulf & Circulations Conference
📲Details: cemasorbonne.org
🏫Centre d’Études Médiévales Anglaises (Sorbonne Université)
🗣️Keynotes: Irina Dumitrescu (Universität Bonn) & Francis Leneghan (Oxford University).
📅March 13-14, 2026
⏰Submission deadline: 10 January, 2026‼️
(no title)
CEMA
cemasorbonne.org
November 13, 2025 at 12:10 PM
📢 #CfP #medievalsky #OldEnglish
📜Beowulf & Circulations Conference
📲Details: cemasorbonne.org
🏫Centre d’Études Médiévales Anglaises (Sorbonne Université)
🗣️Keynotes: Irina Dumitrescu (Universität Bonn) & Francis Leneghan (Oxford University).
📅March 13-14, 2026
⏰Submission deadline: 10 January, 2026‼️
📜Beowulf & Circulations Conference
📲Details: cemasorbonne.org
🏫Centre d’Études Médiévales Anglaises (Sorbonne Université)
🗣️Keynotes: Irina Dumitrescu (Universität Bonn) & Francis Leneghan (Oxford University).
📅March 13-14, 2026
⏰Submission deadline: 10 January, 2026‼️
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📢 Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky!
📜 Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week
📖Nerthus Project: Online Lexical Database of Old English
📲 www.nerthusproject.com
©️Universidad de La Rioja
📜 Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week
📖Nerthus Project: Online Lexical Database of Old English
📲 www.nerthusproject.com
©️Universidad de La Rioja
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
📢 Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky!
📜 Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week
📖Nerthus Project: Online Lexical Database of Old English
📲 www.nerthusproject.com
©️Universidad de La Rioja
📜 Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week
📖Nerthus Project: Online Lexical Database of Old English
📲 www.nerthusproject.com
©️Universidad de La Rioja