Marc Alexander
@mga.is
Professor of English Linguistics (University of Glasgow), Director of the Historical Thesaurus of English, made the Hansard Corpus 1803–, likes cake. He/him.
17 years ago today we sent off the 1st ed of the Historical Thesaurus to OUP for publication in 2009! Scary to think that someone born as we typed in the final word might now be an undergraduate starting this year… (Pictured is Christian Kay handing over the envelope to Tommy Cameron, our janitor.)
July 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
17 years ago today we sent off the 1st ed of the Historical Thesaurus to OUP for publication in 2009! Scary to think that someone born as we typed in the final word might now be an undergraduate starting this year… (Pictured is Christian Kay handing over the envelope to Tommy Cameron, our janitor.)
Walking home last night and was struck by the moon and the clouds above the Wellington Church on the university campus (but didn’t stay to take any more as it was freezing cold!)
November 18, 2024 at 7:34 AM
Walking home last night and was struck by the moon and the clouds above the Wellington Church on the university campus (but didn’t stay to take any more as it was freezing cold!)
Not even a “warm altercation” over the Bishop of Lincoln trying to vote while being in inappropriately ceremonial garments can drag me back to working this afternoon
![“Earl Stanhope, being teller of the latter, refused to return the Bishop of Lincoln, because he was not habited in his lawn sleeves [ceremonial robes made of lawn, a type of fine linen]. This drew on a warm altercation”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:paoz2geaq2s2byfuuddxs573/bafkreih2uxr37vuapeqsykxauibjgvhicfvutmvmxh2hdwdba3znwvtffa@jpeg)
November 9, 2024 at 2:20 PM
Not even a “warm altercation” over the Bishop of Lincoln trying to vote while being in inappropriately ceremonial garments can drag me back to working this afternoon
Professional achievement unlocked: at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social today working on a bit of the Gentleman’s Magazine from 1801 so obscure that even the BL’s copy had uncut pages – I had to get a nice chap at the desk to use his official-looking knife on it. Now am overexcited and need a lie down
November 9, 2024 at 2:11 PM
Professional achievement unlocked: at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social today working on a bit of the Gentleman’s Magazine from 1801 so obscure that even the BL’s copy had uncut pages – I had to get a nice chap at the desk to use his official-looking knife on it. Now am overexcited and need a lie down
Sunset earlier in the year from the office window – staring out at this and smiling is now my number one excuse for not getting all my work done.
November 7, 2024 at 10:51 AM
Sunset earlier in the year from the office window – staring out at this and smiling is now my number one excuse for not getting all my work done.