Posts tagged with 'illness'

Project postdoctoral fellow Dr Jo Edge will give a paper at 'Writing the Self in Pain: Historial Perspectives', a two-day conference hosted by the Experiencing Agony project team at the University of ...

Project postdoctoral fellow Dr Jo Edge will give a paper at the Centre for Early Modern Studies' Research Seminar, University of Aberdeen at 13:00 on Wednesday 09 October 2024 (contact them for a link...

Festival time is in full swing here in Edinburgh and this time of year is also when many of us, including the Alice Thornton’s Books team, host relatives and friends or take time off to travel. In Tho...

As the Alice Thornton’s Books team works towards the launch of the Digital Scholarly Edition, we have had some great discussions with members of the public and with other researchers. We are largely b...

March is Women's History Month and to mark it - like last year - we’re bringing you a series of blog posts, this time on Alice Thornton and various women that feature in her writings. The first, by pr...

On Saturday 18th November the Thornton's Books team are hosting 'Alice Thornton's Cafe' at Starbank Park, Edinburgh as part of the Being Human festival 2023. As a taster, project postdoc Jo Edge outli...

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 ...

Charles II’s coronation was held at Westminster Abbey on 23 April 1661. The diarist Samuel Pepys was present and wrote about it. Alice Thornton also wrote about the coronation in two of her books, but...

For Women’s History Month 2023, we are posting a series of reflections on our first encounters with Alice Thornton and our changing relationship with her books from then to now. Feel free to get invol...

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...

In an earlier post, I introduced some ways in which TEI markup and linkage can help the project to analyse patterns in Alice's writing and trace differences between her books, focusing on mentions of ...