Happening today! The team are amazing - very much recommend this if you're in Edinburgh.

Today, 11.30 at St Cecilia’s Hall, Edinburgh: come and explore HCAatEdinburgh Cordelia Beattie & team’s session on ‘Discovery and Digitisation: Alice Thornton’s Life and Books (1626-1707)’, as part of the #heritage research festival 👇👇👇👇

We are hosting an interactive session at UoE CAHSS News's Festival of Cultural Heritage on Thursday. Explore our digital edition, hear scenes from 'The Remarkable Deliverances of Alice Thornton', & ink your own Thornton-inspired mini-memoir. Book now: thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/news/202…

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Lots happening in Edinburgh this week so do have a look. Our Arts and Humanities Research Council project, Alice Thornton's Books, is popping up at this on Thursday 11.30-1.30 so do come along!

Loads on at The University of Edinburgh this week if you are into cultural heritage! All events are free, and open to everyone. Great programme! #Edinburgh

In the inventory of Thornton's goods, made on 3 March 1707, it lists amongst her goods: 4 cows, 3 young heifers, 8 heifers, a young ox, 4 calves, 18 young sheep, 5 rams, 20 ewes, 2 oxen, 2 pigs, and 2 old coach horses.
#Archive30 #ArchiveAnimals

Thornton wrote about how brought sycamore trees from her mother’s lands at Hipswell, Richmondshire, to her husband’s estate in Ryedale ‘and nursed them in the orchard until fit to set in the rows and walks in the front’ of East Newton Hall. (Bk3) #NationalGardeningDay

Nearly 300 years ago, the first Black performer to play Juliet was Rachael Baptiste, an Irishwoman also hugely successful as a singer.
She performed in Lancashire in the mid-1700s.

Robert Nettleton features in all four of Thornton's Books so it was great to get some context on his legal dispute with William Thornton. Plus a bonus deposition from Thornton herself!

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This links with our post on the 4th: another lawyer, Henry Best, had tried to undo this trust but luckily Thornton did not agree or she would have lost most of her household goods when her husband died much in debt. #coverture

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Harry Smith (our #DigitalHumanities Research Fellow) explains the digital methods we are using to transcribe 25,000 wills.

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#EarlyModern #twitterstorians #History The Leverhulme Trust Exeter History Faculty of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences Transkribus CEMS Exeter

#ArchiveFoodAndDrink #Archive30 In July 1646 Thornton's uncle Osborne died 'of a surfeit of eating melons, being too cold for him' (BkRem Durham Cathedral Library). For more see Jo Edge's post here: historyworkshop.org.uk/food/forbidden…

📢Exciting announcement 📢

We're delighted to announce the launch of the SHR Early Career Research Article. For more information:
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On #WorldHealthDay , wise words from Thornton's father, Christopher Wandesford, written in 1637 on the birth of his granddaughter, Thornton's niece. Sending wishes to the newborn, health, he says, is 'the principal of those earthly comforts which can happen'. Letter North Yorkshire County Record Office

Not just Best, which led Thornton to also write: ‘I have daily cause to see, there is no trust in man … and I have had great experience of man’s treachery’ (Book 2).

#TellALieDay brings to mind lawyer Henry Best, husband of Thornton's niece. He drew up a deed worded to trick Thornton, allowing her husband to disinherit their daughters. He was 'cruel to myself and poor children', Thornton wrote.(Bk 2)
Image: Wallerant Vaillant via Wiki Commons