Blog & News
Digital Edition: Partial Release (side-by-side view)
In collaboration with our partners at King’s Digital Lab, we are delighted to announce that the first 22 pages of our text-encoded files of Alice Thornton’s Book of Remembrances (modernised and semi-d...
Read moreProject Symposium: Toward a Reassessment of Alice Thornton's 'Books'
As promised in our application for AHRC funding, the Alice Thornton’s Books team have organised a symposium that will take place over the next two days, 12 and 13 July 2023, in Edinburgh. Book of Reme...
Read moreAt the Margins of Alice Thornton's Books
"The great blank space provided by the margins" was filled with many kinds of text and image in early modern manuscripts and printed books, and a number of recent and current digital projects reflect ...
Read moreTickets for 'Remarkable Deliverances' at Durham, October 2023 now on sale
Tickets for one-woman play 'The Remarkable Deliverances of Alice Thornton' at Durham Cathedral on October 19 and 20th 2023, 7.30pm are now on sale. Written and performed by Debbie Cannon (Green Knight...
Read more'Tragical transactions at Newton': Thornton's niece responds
Last month, Cordelia Beattie wrote a blog post for the British Library's Untold Lives series about Thornton's account of her betrayal by her niece, Anne Danby. In Thornton's version of events, she had...
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Cordelia Beattie, Suzanne Trill, Joanne Edge, Sharon Howard. 'Blog & News'. Alice Thornton's Books. Accessed .https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/12/