Project Team to Host a Being Human Cafe

News article published by Eleanor Thom on 30 October 2023  events

We are hosting Alice Thornton’s Café on 18th November in Edinburgh as part of Being Human, the UK’s national festival of the humanities.

This is a completely free event for the whole community to enjoy. Come to Edinburgh's Starbank Park (EH5 3BX) on November 18th and find out about Alice Thornton, a 17th-century Yorkshire woman who survived fire, plague, rebellion and family life, and wrote about it all!

• Free tea, coffee, cake and a talk with Cordelia Beattie (PI) and Jo Edge (PDRA), from the Thornton’s Books team.
  11 am, 1:30 pm and 2pm (please reserve here)
• herbal-themed crafts from 11am – 2:30 pm.
• A stroll round the gardens at 11:30 am and 2:00 pm to see the new Alice Thornton-themed planting, with Janet McArthur from Friends of Starbank Park. Starbank Park was recently one of the Edinburgh Evening News' top locations for an autumn stroll in the capital.

Further information and booking.