Role
Dr Helen Newsome-Chandler is a Research Fellow in Forensic Linguistics and AI working with Dr David Wright (Linguistics) and Dr Jordan Bird (Computer Science) on the project ‘Identifying the Language of AI-generated Phishing Campaigns: A Linguistic Approach to a Rapidly Emerging Threat’ funded by the UK government.
Career overview
Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College Dublin, working on a project entitled ‘The Queens’ Post: The Form, Function, and Power of Early Tudor Queens’ Correspondence’.
Research areas
Dr Newsome-Chandler’s main research interests are in the fields of forensic linguistics, historical linguistics, epistolary studies, textual editing, and early Tudor history.
She has recently published a scholarly edition of The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541) as part of the Royal Historical Society’s prestigious Camden Fifth Series (published by Cambridge University Press).
External activity
Group ‘Digital Correspondence: Transhistorical Perspectives on Language,
Materials and Corpora’.
Publications
Scholarly Edition
Newsome-Chandler, H. 2025. The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541), The Royal Historical Society's Camden Fifth Series, Cambridge University Press.
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
Newsome-Chandler, H. 2024. ‘“for goddes sake kepe my writing secrete for it is my destruction”: Strategies of Epistolary Secrecy in the Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541)’, Royal Studies Journal 11(2): 108-132
Newsome-Chandler, H. 2024. ‘Tudor, Margaret, Queen of Scots’, The Palgrave
Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing
Newsome-Chandler, H. and Grant, T. 2023. ‘Developing a Resource Model of Power and Authority in Anonymous Online Criminal Interactions’, Language and Law / Linguagem e Direito 10(1): 110-130
Newsome, H. 2023. ‘“[A]n old battle constantly re-fought”: Why Language Matters When Editing Early Modern Women's Letters: A Case Study of the Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541)’, Women's Writing 20(4): 337-352
Newsome, H. 2021. ‘The Function, Format, and Performance of Margaret Tudor’s January 1522 Diplomatic Memorial’, Renaissance Studies 35(3): 404-424
Newsome, H. 2017. ‘Reconsidering the Provenance of the Henry VII and Margaret Tudor Book of Hours’, Notes and Queries 64(2): 231-234
Book Chapters
Newsome-Chandler, H. and Scott, J. ‘Letters’, In: The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume One: Medieval to 1707 (ed. Mann, A., Green, D., Marshall, J., and Wingfield, E). Forthcoming, April 2026.
PhD Thesis
Newsome, H. 2019. ‘“sche that Schuld be medyatryce (mediatrice) In thyr (these) matars”: Performances of Mediation in the Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541)’, PhD Thesis, The University of Sheffield
Book Reviews
Newsome-Chandler, H. 2025. Review of Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter by Jana Dambrogio and Daniel Starza Smith, The Review of English Studies 76(327): 562-564
Newsome, H. 2019. Review of Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450-1690 James Daybell and Andrew Gordon (eds.), Journal of Historical Pragmatics 20(1): 162-168