On Saturday 10 June 2023, project postdoctoral fellow Dr Jo Edge will present on 'Childbirth in the castle: Alice Thornton's trip to Middleham, 1644', at the annual Castle Studies Trust Conference at the University of Winchester, UK. Jo will be expanding on the work outlined in this blogpost.
The topic of the conference is 'Castle Studies: Present and Future' and includes a keynote by Dr Karen Dempsey and a roundtable on the future of castle studies. Project board member Dr Will Wyeth will also be presenting a paper connecting medieval castles and the legacies of slavery.
Further details, and tickets, are available here. We hope you can make it!