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Project Team to Host Alice Thornton Picnic

News article published by Eleanor Thom on 9 May 2024 creative writing events nature

The Alice Thornton's Books team is hosting a book picnic in Starbank Park, North Edinburgh, EH5 3BX, on Saturday 8th June. This is a free event for the whole community to enjoy. At 12:00 and 16:00 Cor...

Project Team at CAHSS's Festival of Cultural Heritage Research 2024

News article published by Eleanor Thom on 15 April 2024 events

On Thursday 18th April, 11:30am - 1:30pm, the Alice Thornton's Books team will host a free interactive session 'Discovery and Digitisation: Alice Thornton's Life and Books (1626-1707)' at the Festival...

Hybrid project talk in London

News article published by Eleanor Thom on 18 January 2024 events

On January 25th, 5:30 pm at London's Institute of Historical Research, Cordelia Beattie (Principal Investigator) and Suzanne Trill (Co-Investigator) will give a paper on 'Alice Thornton's Books: remem...

Talk for Leith SWI

News article published by Eleanor Thom on 4 January 2024 events

In our first event of 2024, Suzanne Trill (Co-Investigator) will give a talk 'Alice Thornton's Books: A Seventeenth-Century Handmaid's Tale' to the Leith branch of the Scottish Women's Institute. We l...

Project postdoc Jo Edge appears on History with H podcast

News article published by Joanne Edge on 3 January 2024 childbirth podcasts yorkshire

Just before Christmas, project postdoc Jo Edge was interviewed for the History with H podcast by Heather Rowe. She talked about Alice Wandesford Thornton and the connection we found to Middleham Castl...