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Alice Thornton, Memory and Middleham Castle

Blog article published by Joanne Edge on 25 July 2022 animals castles childbirth manuscripts travel wars of the three kingdoms yorkshire

What is Alice Thornton’s connection to Middleham Castle? While Alice grew up in relative privilege, living in nice halls such as Kirklington and Hipswell with her family, she certainly didn’t live any...

Project Team to speak on the English Heritage podcast

News article published by Cordelia Beattie on 19 July 2022 castles podcasts yorkshire

Cordelia Beattie (PI) and Jo Edge (PDRA) will be discussing Alice Thornton’s story, including her connection to the English Heritage site of Middleham Castle in North Yorkshire in episode 173 of the w...

Project Team to speak at Loughborough conference

News article published by Cordelia Beattie on 24 June 2022 conferences

Cordelia Beattie (PI), Suzanne Trill (Co-I) and Sharon Howard (PDRA) will be speaking at 'How to do things with early modern words' at the University of Loughborough on 15 July 2022. 2021 saw the publ...

Finding Two Missing Thornton Manuscripts

Blog article published by Cordelia Beattie on 23 June 2022 manuscripts

‘Are you interested in the manuscript of Alice Thornton's diary?’ This was the text that I got from my dad one evening in autumn 2018. I didn’t get too excited initially as I thought my dad might be r...