Cordelia Beattie
@cordeliabeattie
Professor of Women's and Gender History, with a focus on 1300-1700. PI on AHRC-funded @thornton_books project 2021-2025. @[email protected]
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23-07-2018 15:06:29
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Front page today folks. Keep sharing, keep up the visibility, Keep tagging. Thankyou. Grid Iron Theatre Co Summerhall Vanishing Point Raw Material The Lyceum Trav Campaign for the Arts @EquityGlasgow Equity
This story now features on an interpretation board at English Heritage Middleham Castle. Anyone spotted it?
Happy #InternationalDogDay! Press play to listen to a favourite dog story from the 17th-century memoirs written by Alice Thornton. This scene is adapted and performed by Dr Debbie Cannon in 'The Remarkable Deliverances of Alice Thornton' (plus stay tuned for new Scotland dates)!
On October 19th, audiences at Biggar Little Festival will be able to catch Dr Debbie Cannon in her acclaimed one-woman play based on the life and writings of Alice Thornton. Tickets for 'The Remarkable Deliverances of Alice Thornton' are already on sale. biggarce.yapsody.com/event/index/82…
Performance news! Alice #RemarkableDeliverances The Remarkable Deliverances of Alice Thornton Play will be back for the wonderful Biggar Little Festival on 19th October!
✨📖Call for Papers!📖✨Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison & I are organising a conference on Scotland's Manuscripts: Making and Finding, 5-6 December, University of Edinburgh, funder by The British Academy ECR Network & including a workshop Centre for Research Collections. Please share & consider sending us an abstract!
One of the documents featured in the blog post on Thornton that I wrote with staff at North Yorkshire County Record Office this summer. See nycroblog.com/2024/07/04/ali…
Looking forward to seeing this next month Gawthorpe Hall.
Something very, very exciting is happening British Library Medieval Women: In Their Own Words, our new major exhibition, opens on 25 October Get your tickets now, they're cheaper than #Oasis and more chance of encountering Margery Kempe 😉 blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus…
Many Victoria County History volumes are already available to read on British History Online, but with the support of the Marc Fitch Fund & Institute of Historical Research we are currently digitising many more. Including the (largely) early 20th C Vol. 1s, full of info re. #naturalhistory #archaeology #geology #domesday
The next exhibition at British Library will be Medieval Women: In Their Own Words (October 25th) & YES we will have a beautiful book to accompany it.
On #WorldLetterWritingDay read Cordelia Beattie's blog post on Alice Thornton's letters. While Thornton is best known for writing four books about her life, we have traced 25 autograph letters (and one copy). thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/202…
![5 Sept 1668 Alice Thornton became very ill #OTD due to the rumours that circulated about her and Thomas Comber's relationship, 'I fell into a very grievous extremity of grief again...which so affected my soul that did raise both the spleen & mother [ie womb] in my sides'. (BkRem)](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GWtlzMVWIAASIww.jpg "Alice Thornton's Books (@thornton_books) on Twitter photo 5 Sept 1668 Alice Thornton became very ill #OTD due to the rumours that circulated about her and Thomas Comber's relationship, 'I fell into a very grievous extremity of grief again...which so affected my soul that did raise both the spleen & mother [ie womb] in my sides'. (BkRem)")
It was lovely to be at the launch event last night for the programme for this year’s PortyBookFest. I’m looking forward to appearing on Fri. 4 Oct with Suzanne Trill and Eleanor J Thom of Alice Thornton's Books. Free tickets available Porty Library = Feeling less Summery! 🌞🥰 from Monday.