Role
Dr Helen Newsome-Chandler is a Research Assistant in Corpus Linguistics and Law
working with Dr David Wright (NILIC) and Dr James Thornton (Nottingham Law School)
on the project ‘The language of sentencing: transparency, consistency, and public
understanding’.
Career overview
Prior to joining Nottingham Trent University, Dr Newsome-Chandler was a Marie
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’.
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 a forthcoming scholarly edition of the Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541) as part of the Royal Historical Society’s Camden Fifth Series.
External activity
Co-ordinator of UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association Community Interest
Group ‘Digital Correspondence: Transhistorical Perspectives on Language,
Materials and Corpora’.
Group ‘Digital Correspondence: Transhistorical Perspectives on Language,
Materials and Corpora’.
Publications
Scholarly Edition
- Newsome-Chandler, H. The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541), The Royal Historical Society's Camden Fifth Series, Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming.
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
- Newsome-Chandler, H. ‘“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. Forthcoming.
- Newsome-Chandler, H. 2024. ‘Tudor, Margaret, Queen of Scots’, The Palgrave
Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing <https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01537-4_260-1> - 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 <https://doi.org/10.21747/21833745/lanlaw/10_1/a4>
- 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 <https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2023.2266040>
- Newsome, H. 2021. ‘The Function, Format, and Performance of Margaret Tudor’s January 1522 Diplomatic Memorial’, Renaissance Studies 35(3): 404-424
<https://doi.org/10.1111/rest.12678> - Newsome, H. 2017. ‘Reconsidering the Provenance of the Henry VII and Margaret Tudor Book of Hours’, Notes and Queries 64(2): 231-234 <https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjx056>
Book Chapter
- 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.
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 <https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/24865/>
Book Reviews
- 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 <https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.00025.new>