Blog & News
Project Team to present at the RSA, Puerto Rico, March 2023
The annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America takes place in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 9-11 March 2023. Project PI Cordelia Beattie, Co-I Suzanne Trill and Postdoctoral Fellow Jo Edge are pres...
Read moreAlice Thornton’s Heart: An Early Modern Emoji
One of the benefits of working with Alice Thornton’s original manuscripts is that we got to see that where later editors had written ‘heart’, Thornton herself had sometimes used the sign (or emoji) ♡....
Read more'A Curious Account': Alice Thornton on the Last Days of Charles I
We are nearing the anniversary of the execution of Charles I, which took place on 30 January 1649. For Alice Thornton, looking back on this c.1669 when writing Book 1: The First Book of My Life, Charl...
Read morePaper on Thornton at Life-Cycles Seminar, 24 January 2023
Project postdoctoral fellow Dr Jo Edge will give a paper at the Life-Cycles Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London on Tuesday 24 January at 5.30pm. The paper is titled 'Taking it to Heart: ...
Read morePublication of Anne, Lady Halkett's A True Account of My Life and Selected Meditations
Suzanne Trill (Co-I) is pleased to announce that her latest edition of Anne, Lady Halkett's autobiographical writing is now in print. Born in the early 1620s to parents of Scottish descent who were se...
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