If you’re looking for anything to read during the Christmas recess period, here is something you’ll find interesting: a special issue of the International Journal of English Studies (23/2) entirely devoted to studies within the fairly new and burgeoning field of Third-Wave Historical Sociolinguistics. Four articles, three of which focus on Late Modern English letters (Mary Hamilton, Irish emigrant letters and Derbyshire spelling features), preceded by an enlightening introduction by Tamara García-Vidal. And all available Open Access.