On Thursday 18th April, 11:30am - 1:30pm, the Alice Thornton's Books team will host a free interactive session 'Discovery and Digitisation: Alice Thornton's Life and Books (1626-1707)' at the Festival of Cultural Heritage Research 2024, an event organised by the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Edinburgh, at St Cecilia's Hall, 50 Niddry Street, EH1 1LG. We will be on the 1st floor, in the Sypert Concert Hall.
We will demonstrate how we are turning Thornton’s seventeenth-century manuscripts into an open-access Digital Scholarly Edition (DSE) that both preserves her texts and changes our understanding of their cultural significance. Attendees will be introduced to her four autobiographical manuscripts and be offered unique access to sections of the DSE that are not yet available to the public. We'll have audio samples of Debbie Cannon reading her one-woman play, 'The Remarkable Deliverances of Alice Thornton', and other clips relating to our research findings. We'll also give you the opportunity to ink your own short autobiographical story, inspired by an Alice Thornton prompt.
Find out more and book your free place here.
(It is a drop in session but bookings help for catering purposes.)
Citing this web page:
Eleanor Thom. 'Project Team at CAHSS's Festival of Cultural Heritage Research 2024'. Alice Thornton's Books. Accessed .