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March is Women's History Month and to mark it - like last year - we’re bringing you a series of blog posts, this time on Alice Thornton and various women that feature in her writings. The first, by pr...

Thursday 1st February 2024 marks the 317th anniversary of the burial of Alice Thornton, followed - on 13 February – by the 398th anniversary of her birth. To mark these occasions, this month’s post wi...

On January 25th, 5:30 pm at London's Institute of Historical Research, Cordelia Beattie (Principal Investigator) and Suzanne Trill (Co-Investigator) will give a paper on 'Alice Thornton's Books: remem...

In our first event of 2024, Suzanne Trill (Co-Investigator) will give a talk 'Alice Thornton's Books: A Seventeenth-Century Handmaid's Tale' to the Leith branch of the Scottish Women's Institute. We l...

Just before Christmas, project postdoc Jo Edge was interviewed for the History with H podcast by Heather Rowe. She talked about Alice Wandesford Thornton and the connection we found to Middleham Castl...