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Women's History Month 2024, 3: Alice Thornton and Anne Danby on Stage

Women's History Month 2024, 3: Alice Thornton and Anne Danby on Stage

March is Women's History Month and, like last year, to mark it we’re bringing you a series of blog posts, this time on Alice Thornton and various women that feature in her writings. In this third post...

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Women's History Month 2024, 2: Alice Thornton and Our Imagined Alice Thorntons

Women's History Month 2024, 2: Alice Thornton and Our Imagined Alice Thorntons

March is Women's History Month and, like last year, to mark it we’re bringing you a series of blog posts. In this second post, our Engagement and Impact Officer Eleanor Thom writes about the missing p...

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Women's History Month 2024, 1: Alice Thornton and Daphne Lightfoot

Women's History Month 2024, 1: Alice Thornton and Daphne Lightfoot

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...

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Alice Wandesford Thornton (1626-1707): Anniversary Special

Alice Wandesford Thornton (1626-1707): Anniversary Special

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...

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Community Conversations and Events

Community Conversations and Events

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...

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