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In our first event of 2024, Suzanne Trill (Co-Investigator) will give a talk 'Alice Thornton's Books: A Seventeenth-Century Handmaid's Tale' to the Leith branch of the Scottish Women's Institute. We l...

Just before Christmas, project postdoc Jo Edge was interviewed for the History with H podcast by Heather Rowe. She talked about Alice Wandesford Thornton and the connection we found to Middleham Castl...

As the year draws to a close, it’s darker and chillier in Edinburgh, and it’s a good time to get together with your community and spread a bit of warmth. The Alice Thornton Books team has spent the la...

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...

We now have a search function for people and places which means you can now see who appears, and how often, across all four books and find out what places Thornton was associated with over the course ...