Cordelia Beattie (PI) will give a talk, 'Alice Thornton (1626-1707) and her Rediscovered Manuscripts', to the Open History Society at 19:30 on Friday November 17th 2023 at the Royal Scots Club, 29-31 Abercromby Place, Edinburgh.
Please come along to find out:
How Cordelia Beattie located two missing Thornton manuscripts
What Alice Thornton wrote about, and what her life in England and Ireland was like during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
What motivated Alice Thornton to write, and what her accounts tell us about 17th-century gentry life.
The talk is free to members of the Open History Society but others can pay to attend. For more information please see the Open History Society’s programme of talks 2023-24
Citing this web page:
Eleanor Thom. 'Project PI to give a talk on Thornton to Edinburgh's Open History Society'. Alice Thornton's Books. Accessed .