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Content note: miscarriage, child illness In February 1655, Alice Thornton was in bed recovering from giving birth to her second daughter, Elizabeth (Betty), when her maid called out to her. Her one-ye...

On 3 December, Cordelia Beattie (PI) and Suzanne Trill (Co-I) will take part in a roundtable on ‘Creative Approaches to Early Modern Women’. The roundtable is organised by Naomi J. Miller (Smith Colle...

Cordelia Beattie (PI) and Suzanne Trill (Co-I) will be on EHFM at 5pm GMT tonight (Monday 28 November), being interviewed by a University of Edinburgh student, Jasmine Webster aka Webster's Dictionary...

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 ...

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 ...