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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...

As the year draws to a close, it’s darker and chillier in Edinburgh, and it’s a good time to get together with your community and spread a bit of warmth. The Alice Thornton Books team has spent the la...

We now have a search function for people and places which means you can now see who appears, and how often, across all four books and find out what places Thornton was associated with over the course ...

On Saturday 18th November the Thornton's Books team are hosting 'Alice Thornton's Cafe' at Starbank Park, Edinburgh as part of the Being Human festival 2023. As a taster, project postdoc Jo Edge outli...

This guest blog to mark the anniversary of the Irish Rebellion is by Naomi McAreavey, Associate Professor in Renaissance Literature at University College Dublin. Naomi McAreavey is editor of The Lette...