Blog & News


Project team to give talk to Local Writers and Illustrators

Project team to give talk to Local Writers and Illustrators

On Tuesday 21st November, writers taking part in the Edinburgh International Book Festival’s Citizen Project and illustration students from Edinburgh College of Art have been invited for an evening ta...

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'But I gave her all medicines': herbal remedies in Alice Thornton's Books

'But I gave her all medicines': herbal remedies in Alice Thornton's Books

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...

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Project PI to give a talk on Thornton to Edinburgh's Open History Society

Project PI to give a talk on Thornton to Edinburgh's Open History Society

Cordelia Beattie (PI) will give a talk, 'Alice Thornton (1626-1707) and her Rediscovered Manuscripts', to the Open History Society at 19:30 on Friday November 17th 2023 at the Royal Scots Club, 29-31 ...

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Project Team to Host a Being Human Cafe

Project Team to Host a Being Human Cafe

We are hosting Alice Thornton’s Café on 18th November in Edinburgh as part of Being Human, the UK’s national festival of the humanities. This is a completely free event for the whole community to enjo...

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Alice Thornton and the Irish Rebellion of 1641

Alice Thornton and the Irish Rebellion of 1641

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...

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Citing this web page:

Cordelia Beattie, Suzanne Trill, Joanne Edge, Sharon Howard. 'Blog & News'. Alice Thornton's Books. Accessed .
https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/7/
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