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Encoding Alice Thornton's Books

Blog article published by Sharon Howard on 25 August 2022 TEI data visualisation

Encoding highly complex texts like Alice Thornton's books is a process of interpretation in order to make explicit some of the underlying structures and patterns in a text. How does text encoding in T...

Alice Thornton, Memory and Middleham Castle

Blog article published by Joanne Edge on 25 July 2022 animals castles childbirth manuscripts travel wars of the three kingdoms yorkshire

What is Alice Thornton’s connection to Middleham Castle? While Alice grew up in relative privilege, living in nice halls such as Kirklington and Hipswell with her family, she certainly didn’t live any...

Finding Two Missing Thornton Manuscripts

Blog article published by Cordelia Beattie on 23 June 2022 manuscripts

‘Are you interested in the manuscript of Alice Thornton's diary?’ This was the text that I got from my dad one evening in autumn 2018. I didn’t get too excited initially as I thought my dad might be r...