Posts tagged with 'emotions'

We are delighted to announce the digital release of a further 81 pages of the Book of Remembrances. With half of this book now available to browse, we’d love to hear your comments on the text and the ...

One of the benefits of working with Alice Thornton’s original manuscripts is that we got to see that where later editors had written ‘heart’, Thornton herself had sometimes used the sign (or emoji) ♡....

Content note: miscarriage, child illness In February 1655, Alice Thornton was in bed recovering from giving birth to her second daughter, Elizabeth (Betty), when her maid called out to her. Her one-ye...