Contents: Nils Langer and Samantha M. Litty: Effects of ideology and policy on practices: Minoritized languages and varieties in historical sociolinguistics – Christine Wallis: Like father, like son? Scots and intra-writer variation in The Mary Hamilton Papers – Yoko Iyeiri: Comments on multiple negation in the Early Modern English period – Judith Yoel: Language shift from Maritime Sign Language (MSL) to American Sign Language (ASL): A historical perspective – Samantha M. Litty and Jan Momme Penning: Semi-public writings in the Duchy of Schleswig in the nineteenth century – Sung Min Park: Rethinking the language policy for the eastern provinces of the first-century Roman Empire – Tom Flaten, Elin Gunleifsen and Gro-Reneé Rambø: Linguistic and semiotic landscapes in Finnmark, Norway: Historical multilingualism, language ideology, and policy – Aidan Doyle: From modern Irish to neo-Irish: Reshaping a language – Vicente Lledó-Guillem: Interpreting the linguistic legacy of the Royal Chancellery of the Crown of Aragon: The broadcast of the Catalan public channel TV3 in Valencian lands – Julian Mader: Plain Speech and the Quaker pronoun of address in nineteenth-century England – James Konrad Puchowski: The Nynorsk movement: From National Romanticism to contemporary social campaigns – Ilka Thomsen: Multilingualism and vernaculars between ideology and practice: Tracing the language question at the “lunatic asylum near Schleswig” 1852–1864 – Covadonga Lamar Prieto: Administrative documents from the Mexican city of Los Ángeles (CSLA-25), 1835–1847.