Posts tagged with 'manuscripts'

Alice Thornton describes many medical encounters and illnesses in her four Books, and some episodes are recounted and retold in later volumes. In December 2022, I wrote a blog post on Thornton and tra...

On 5 July 2024, the Thornton's Books team travelled to Northallerton for an afternoon of Thornton events at the North Yorkshire County Record Office. This consisted of a talk by Cordelia Beattie on Al...

As we head into the final six months of the project, we are marking this milestone by sharing the first one hundred pages of all four of Alice Thornton’s books so you can begin to explore her life and...

On July 5th 2024, the Alice Thornton's Books team will be visiting the North Yorkshire County Record Office, Malpas Road, Northallerton. The archives are hosting an afternoon of Thornton-related event...

As we move into the final phase of our project, in collaboration with KDL, we have made some changes to the organisation of our website and the text viewer that we hope will enhance your reading exper...

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...

Thursday 1st February 2024 marks the 317th anniversary of the burial of Alice Thornton, followed - on 13 February – by the 398th anniversary of her birth. To mark these occasions, this month’s post wi...

We now have a search function for people and places! Links that go to our partial release are live, others show up but are currently disabled; however, you can now see who appears and how often across...

This guest blog to mark the anniversary of the Irish Rebellion is by Naomi McAreavey, Associate Professor in Renaissance Literature at University College Dublin. Naomi McAreavey is editor of The Lette...

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 ...

Cordelia Beattie (PI) was interviewed by Mark Turnbull for his podcast, CavalierCast, which looks at anything and everything to do with the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Have a listen to find out: Have ...

As we gear up for four days and nights of events at Durham Cathedral, our project partner, here are five links between Alice Thornton and Durham Cathedral to whet your interest: Durham Cathedral weste...

The 1st September is World Letter Writing Day. While Alice Thornton (1626-1707) is best known for writing four books about her life, we know that she frequently communicated by letter and we have been...

"The great blank space provided by the margins" was filled with many kinds of text and image in early modern manuscripts and printed books, and a number of recent and current digital projects reflect ...

Project PI, Cordelia Beattie, has written a post for the British Library's blog series, 'Untold Lives', about the two Alice Thornton manuscripts in their collection, when they were written, and our cu...

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...

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...

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...

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) ♡....

Before the news of Queen Elizabeth II’s death, those of us who had gathered for our Alice Thornton’s Books end of project year board meeting (8 September 2022) were paying our respects to the remarkab...

What is Alice Thornton’s connection to Middleham Castle? While Alice grew up in relative privilege, living in nice halls such as Kirklington and Hipswell with her family, she certainly didn’t live any...

‘Are you interested in the manuscript of Alice Thornton's diary?’ This was the text that I got from my dad one evening in autumn 2018. I didn’t get too excited initially as I thought my dad might be r...