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TEI and Narratives of Events in Alice Thornton's Books

TEI and Narratives of Events in Alice Thornton's Books

In an earlier post, I introduced some ways in which TEI markup and linkage can help the project to analyse patterns in Alice's writing and trace differences between her books, focusing on mentions of ...

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Black Monday: The Solar Eclipse of 1652

Black Monday: The Solar Eclipse of 1652

Today, October 25 2022, there is a partial eclipse of the sun. However, a much fuller solar eclipse took place on Monday 29 March 1652, which cast complete darkness over Scotland and much of northern ...

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Professor Raymond Anselment: A Commemoration

Professor Raymond Anselment: A Commemoration

Before the news of Queen Elizabeth II’s death, those of us who had gathered for our Alice Thornton’s Books end of project year board meeting (8 September 2022) were paying our respects to the remarkab...

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A House Divided: how did the Thorntons feel about the Restoration of Charles II?

A House Divided: how did the Thorntons feel about the Restoration of Charles II?

The last time a King Charles was proclaimed in London was in 1660. [1] When Charles III acceded to the throne last week, there was some initial speculation about whether he might choose to use one of ...

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Encoding Alice Thornton's Books

Encoding Alice Thornton's Books

Encoding highly complex texts like Alice Thornton's books is a process of interpretation in order to make explicit some of the underlying structures and patterns in a text. How does text encoding in T...

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Cordelia Beattie, Suzanne Trill, Joanne Edge, Sharon Howard. 'Blog & News'. Alice Thornton's Books. Accessed .
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